David Barnhart

David K. Barnhart (born 1941) is an American lexicographer who specializes in new words. He's also the founder of Lexik House publishers. Barnhart began his career helping his father, Clarence Barnhart, edit the Thorndike-Barnhart dictionary series. In 1980, he founded Lexik House publishers. Barnhart wrote Neo Words: A Dictionary of the Newest and Most Unusual Words of Our Time (1991), created The Barnhart New-Words Concordance (1994) and its Supplement (2006), and compiled Barnhart's Never-finished Political Dictionary of the 21st Century.

With Allan A. Metcalf, Barnhart wrote America in So Many Words: Words that have shaped America (1997). Barnhart has worked as a teacher, lecturer, and as an expert witness reporting on usage and meaning in English words. He's a past president of the Dictionary Society of North America and the International Linguistic Association. He is a member of the American Dialect Society.

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