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Michael Quinion
Michael Quinion (born c. 1943) is a British etymologist and writer. He runs World Wide Words, a website devoted to linguistics. He graduated from Cambridge University, where he studied physical sciences after which he joined BBC radio as a studio manager.
==Writer==
Quinion has contributed extensively to the ''Oxford English Dictionary'' as well as the ''Oxford Dictionary of New Words'' (Second Edition, 1996). He has since written ''Ologies and Isms''〔 (a 2002 dictionary of affixes) and ''Port Out, Starboard Home: And Other Language Myths'' (2004), published in the US as ''Ballyhoo, Buckaroo, and Spuds: Ingenious Tales of Words and Their Origins''〔''Port Out Starboard Home: And Other Language Myths'' is published outside the USA by Penguin Books (Hardcover ISBN 0-14-051534-8/Paperback ISBN 0-14-101223-4)
In the United States it is published by the Smithsonian Institution Press as ''Ballyhoo, Buckaroo, and Spuds'' (Hardcover ISBN 1-58834-219-0/Paperback ISBN 0-06-085153-8)〕
His most recent book is ''Gallimaufry: A Hodgepodge of Our Vanishing Vocabulary'' (2006). He wrote two books about orcharding and cidermaking, one titled ''Cidermaking'' (published by Shire Publications), the other, ''A Drink for Its Time'', published by the Cider Museum in Hereford, where he served as curator.〔(Michael Quinion personal page ); accessed 25 February 2014.〕
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