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. Before assuming the editorship of ''Humanities'' in 2007, Skinner was an assistant managing editor at ''

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'', for which he frequently wrote. Prior to joining the ''Standard'' in November 1998, Skinner was managing editor of ''

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''. David Skinner has written for ''

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'', '' Slate'', ''

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'', '' The New Atlantis'', ''

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'', and other publications. He is on the usage panel for the

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. Until 2007, he edited ''Doublethink'', a quarterly journal for young writers published by America's Future Foundation. He also was formerly associated with the ''Galley Slaves'' blog, along with fellow ''Weekly Standard'' staffers Jonathan V. Last and

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, of the "Galley Slaves" blog on July 23, 2007 Skinner's first book, ''The Story of Ain't: America, Its Language, and the Most Controversial Dictionary Ever Published'' (), was published in 2012.

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* Review of ''The story of ain't''.

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