etymologist
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John Kelly, an etymologist and senior research editor at Dictionary.com, wrote in a 2017 post on his etymology website, Mashed Radish.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 18, 2019
As it happens, far from a crusty don, Forsyth isn’t much over 40, according to his bio, and is best known in Britain as a witty etymologist.
From New York Times ● May 30, 2018
I asked the Journal’s resident etymologist, columnist Ben Zimmer, about the earliest use of the term “echo chamber” in its modern sense.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 16, 2016
“I make it sound very scholarly,” says Merriam etymologist Jim Rader, a onetime Slavic linguistics graduate student who writes the historical notes.
From Slate ● Jan. 12, 2015
The public would have been grateful to Johnson, had he united in his dictionary the labours of some learned etymologist.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Isaac Disraeli
