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Michael Quinion is a British etymologist who ran World Wide Words and contributed to the Oxford Dictionary of New Words, second edition, in 1996.
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Michael Quinion ranks #145 of 315 in the Lexicographer ranking, behind William Craigie, ahead of Nishio Minoru.
Respected popular word-history writer; broad influence online, but less formal lexicographic scholarship.
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