Coiner

Coiner: noun. A person who coins words for a living. There have been many coiners throughout the course of English and world history, the most famous one probably being William Shakespeare, closely followed by Lewis Carroll and Jane Austen. The last name on this list may come as a surprise to some, but although this fact is little known, Jane Austen was an ardent coiner, with nearly two hundred contributions to the English language, some of which were or will be described in this enlightening blog. In this aspect, Jane Austen was quite similar to Lewis Carroll, who had actually coined the word coiner himself while serving as the head of the Movement for the Rationalisation of the English Language responsible for a vast variety of new words (most of which had sadly never caught on).