Susie Dent

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1. Susie Dent

   Author of The Language Report, Larpers and Shroomers: The Language Report, Fanboys and Overdogs: The Language Report

2. David Crystal

   Author of The Stories of English, The English Language: A Guided Tour of the Language, Language Death

3. John Ayto

   Author of Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang, Twentieth Century Words, The Oxford Dictionary of Rhyming Slang (Oxford Paperback Reference)

4. Michael Quinion

   Author of Port Out, Starboard Home, Ologies and Isms: A Dictionary of Word Beginnings and Endings (Oxford Paperback Reference), Gallimaufry: A Hodgepodge of our Vanishing Vocabulary

5. Nigel Rees

   Author of A Man About a Dog: Euphemisms and Other Examples of Verbal Squeamishness, Cassell's Humorous Quotations (Cassell Reference)

6. Grant Barrett

   Author of The Official Dictionary of Unofficial English, Hatchet Jobs and Hardball: The Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang

7. Jonathon Green

   Author of Cassell's Dictionary of Slang, Slang Through the Ages

8. Lester V. Berrey

   Author of The American thesaurus of slang; a complete reference book of colloquial speech

9. Eric Partridge

   Author of Usage and Abusage: A Guide to Good English, A dictionary of catch phrases, American and British, from the sixteenth century to the present day

10. Anna Farkas

    Author of The Oxford Dictionary of Catchphrases (Oxford Paperback Reference)

11. Allen Walker Read

    Author of Milestones in the History of English in America (Publication of the American Dialect Society, No. 86)

12. R. W. Holder

    Author of Oxford Dictionary of Euphemisms

13. William Grimes

    Author of Eating your words

14. Paul Dickson

    Author of Words

15. Gyles Brandreth

    Author of The Joy of Lex: How to Have Fun With 860,341,500 Words

16. Erin McKean

    Author of More Weird and Wonderful Words

17. Stewart Edelstein

    Author of Dubious Doublets: A Delightful Compendium of Unlikely Word Pairs of Common Origin, from Aardvark/Porcelain to Zodiac/Whi

18. Orin Hargraves

    Author of Mighty Fine Words and Smashing Expressions: Making Sense of Transatlantic English

19. Howard Rheingold

    Author of They Have a Word for It

20. Geoffrey Hughes

    Author of A History of English Words (The Language Library)