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Nigel Rees
Nigel Rees (born 5 June 1944 near Liverpool) is an English writer and broadcaster, best known for devising and hosting the long-running Radio 4 panel game ''Quote... Unquote'' (since 1976) and as the author of more than fifty books – mostly works of reference on language, and humour in language. ==Personal life== Rees went to the Merchant Taylors' School, Crosby, and then took a degree in English at New College, Oxford, where he was a Trevelyan Scholar and took a leading role in the Oxford University Broadcasting Society.〔Jonathan Sale, (Passed/Failed: 'I got a first in having a good time' — An education in the life of the broadcaster and writer Nigel Rees ), ''The Independent'', 1 July 2004.〕 Rees is a recent past President of the Lichfield Johnson Society and was described in ''The Spectator'' as "Britain's most popular lexicographer – the lineal successor to Eric Partridge and, like him, he makes etymology fun."〔The Spectator, 16 December 2006〕
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