Elizabeth M. Knowles

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1. Editors of Chambers

   Author of Chambers Biographical Dictionary, The Chambers Dictionary, Chambers Dictionary of World History

2. H. W. Fowler

   Author of Fowler’s Modern English Usage, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current English, The King's English

3. Eric Partridge

   Author of Usage and Abusage: A Guide to Good English, Origins: A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English, A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English

4. Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

   Author of Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable

5. Robert Graves

   Author of The Greek Myths

6. Maurice Waite

   Author of Oxford Compact Thesaurus

7. Margaret Drabble

   Author of The Oxford Companion to English Literature, The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature

8. Judy Pearsall

   Author of The Oxford English Reference Dictionary

9. John Ayto

   Author of Dictionary of Word Origins: The Histories of More Than 8,000 English-Language Words, Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang, Twentieth Century Words

10. Richard Barber

    Author of The Coming of the Anglo-Saxons, The Fall of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms, Anglo-Saxon Lore and Learning

11. Lyn Davies

    Author of A is for Ox

12. Ted Honderich

    Author of The Oxford Companion to Philosophy

13. David Crystal

    Author of The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language, The Stories of English

14. Michael Worek

    Author of Nobel: A Century of Prize Winners

15. Elizabeth M. Knowles

    Author of The Oxford Dictionary of New Words, The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and Quotation, The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable

16. M. I. Finley

    Author of The World of Odysseus

17. Tony Augarde

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

18. William Little

    Author of The shorter Oxford English dictionary

19. Richard Fortey

    Author of Life: An Unauthorised Biography

20. Philip Ziegler

    Author of The Black Death