Patrick Hanks

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1. Patrick Hanks

   Author of The Oxford Names Companion, A Dictionary of Surnames, A Dictionary of First Names

2. Eric Partridge

   Author of A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, Eric Partridge in His Own Words

3. Humphrey Carpenter

   Author of The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature, That Was Satire, That Was: Beyond the Fringe, the Establishment Club, "Private Eye" and "That Was the Week That Was"

4. Geoffrey Hughes

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

5. Steve Roud

   Author of The English Year, The Penguin Guide to the Superstitions of Britain and Ireland

6. Robin McKie

   Author of Face of Britain: How Our Genes Reveal the History of Britain

7. Philip Howard

   Author of The State of the Language: English Observed

8. H. L. Mencken

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

9. George Stewart

   Author of American Given Names: Their Origin and History in the Context of the English Language

10. Francis Kilvert

    Author of Kilverts Diary, 1870-1879

11. Muriel Spark

    Author of Aiding And Abetting And The Go Away Bird

12. A. D. Mills

    Author of A Dictionary of English Place-names (Oxford Paperback Reference)

13. Editors of Chambers

    Author of Chambers Biographical Dictionary

14. Edward MacLysaght

    Author of The Surnames of Ireland

15. Leonard Michaels

    Author of The State of the language (1980)

16. Tony Augarde

    Author of The Oxford Guide to Word Games

17. Sir Frank Stenton

    Author of Anglo-Saxon England

18. Elizabeth G. Withycombe

    Author of The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names

19. Joseph Twadell Shipley

    Author of Dictionary of Word Origins

20. Sidney I. Landau

    Author of Dictionaries: The Art and Craft of Lexicography