Willard R. Espy (1910–1999)

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1. Willard R. Espy

   Author of The Game of Words, The Garden of Eloquence: A Rhetorical Bestiary, Say it my way : how to avoid certain pitfalls of spoken English together with a decidedly informal history of how our language rose (or fell)

2. Richard Lederer

   Author of Anguished English: An Anthology Of Accidental Assaults Upon The English Language, Miracle of Language, The Play of Words

3. H. L. Mencken

   Author of The American Language, American Language Supplement 1 (American Language No. 1), American Language Supplement 2 (American Language No. 1)

4. William Safire

   Author of Fumblerules, In Love with Norma Loquendi, What's the Good Word?

5. Ross Eckler

   Author of Making the Alphabet Dance: Recreational Wordplay

6. Martin Gardner

   Author of Aha! Insight, Mathematical Carnival, Origami, Eleusis, and the Soma Cube

7. Gyles Brandreth

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

8. Paul Dickson

   Author of Words, The Official Rules

9. William Morris

   Author of Morris Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins, Harper Dictionary of Contemporary Usage

10. Tony Augarde

    Author of The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations, The Oxford Guide to Word Games

11. Josefa Heifetz Byrne

    Author of Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure, and Preposterous Words: Gathered from Numerous and Diverse Authoritative So

12. Stuart Berg Flexner

    Author of Listening to America: An illustrated history of words and phrases from our lively and splendid past, I Hear America Talking: An Illustrated History of American Words and Phrases (A Touchstone book)

13. Clifton Fadiman

    Author of The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes, Encyclopedia Britannica

14. Cecil Adams

    Author of The Straight Dope, More of the Straight Dope

15. Avram Davidson

    Author of The Phoenix and the Mirror, Peregrine: Primus, Magic for Sale

16. Peter Bowler

    Author of The Superior Person's Book of Words, The Superior Person's Second Book of Weird and Wondrous Words

17. Karen Elizabeth Gordon

    Author of The Well-Tempered Sentence: A Punctuation Handbook for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed, The Disheveled Dictionary: A Curious Caper Through Our Sumptuous Lexicon

18. Edwin Newman

    Author of Strictly Speaking, A Civil Tongue

19. Lewis Thomas

    Author of Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony, Et Cetera, Et Cetera: Notes of a Word-Watcher

20. Scott Rice

    Author of It Was a Dark and Stormy Night, Son of "It Was a Dark and Stormy Night"