Eric Partridge (1894–1979)

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1. Eric Partridge

   Author of Origins: A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English, A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, A CHARM OF WORDS.

2. H. W. Fowler

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

3. Sir Ernest Gowers

   Author of The Complete Plain Words

4. John Michael Cohen

   Author of The Penguin Dictionary of Quotations, The Penguin Dictionary of Modern Quotations, The Penguin book of comic and curious verse (Penguin poets series;no.D19)

5. E. M. W. Tillyard

   Author of The Elizabethan World Picture, Shakespeare's History Plays

6. Editors of Chambers

   Author of Chambers Biographical Dictionary, The Chambers Dictionary

7. Oxford University Press

   Author of The Oxford English Dictionary [Compact Edition], The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Third Edition, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations

8. William Shakespeare

   Author of Cymbeline, The First Folio of Shakespeare: The Norton Facsimile, The Two Noble Kinsmen

9. David Crystal

   Author of The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language, Shakespeare's Words: A Glossary and Language Companion

10. Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

    Author of Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable

11. Robert Graves

    Author of Goodbye to All That, The Long Week-End: A Social History of Great Britain 1918-1939, Selected Poems

12. S. Schoenbaum

    Author of Shakespeare's Lives, William Shakespeare: A Compact Documentary Life (Oxford Paperbacks)

13. Kingsley Amis

    Author of The King's English: A Guide to Modern Usage, Memoirs

14. Anthony Trollope

    Author of Doctor Thorne, The Last Chronicle of Barset, An Autobiography

15. R.W. Burchfield

    Author of The English Language, Unlocking the English Language

16. Charles Nicholl

    Author of The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe, The Lodger Shakespeare: His Life on Silver Street

17. Thomas Hardy

    Author of The Woodlanders, The Trumpet-Major

18. Graham Greene

    Author of Doctor Fischer of Geneva or the Bomb Party, Lord Rochester's Monkey: Being the Life of John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester

19. Percy Alfred Scholes

    Author of The Oxford Companion to Music

20. Lewis Thomas

    Author of The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher, The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher, Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony