What is a word, besides “linguist,” for a person who likes words?
lexophile: http://www.vanillajoy.com/fun-with-words.html ‘A lexophile is a person who loves words and word plays. I do, do you? A bicycle can’t stand alone; it is two tired. Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana. A backward poet writes inverse. A chicken crossing the road: poultry in motion. If you don’t pay your exorcist, you can get repossessed. When a clock is hungry, it goes back four seconds. You are stuck with your debt if you can’t budge it. Local Area Network in Australia: The LAN down under. He broke into song because he couldn’t find the key. Bakers trade bread recipes on a knead to know basis. If you jump off a Paris bridge, you are in Seine. When you’ve seen one shopping center, you’ve seen a mall.’ That’s me alright.