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[David Artman]

If Google Ngrams is to be believed, it was first coined around 1824:
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=wordmonger&year_start=1800&year_end=2000


-------- Original Message --------
From: Steve Rickaby <srickaby at wordmongers.demon.co.uk>
Date: Tue, May 20, 2014 2:05 pm

>Ps. Word Mongers - hmm, nice name. I've been called a Word Carver. I hope it was a compliment!

I thought I'd invented the term 'wordmonger' (in 1995, during a bout of
more than usually furious concentration), as in 'one who sells words',
but years later I discovered that the word already existed, and meant 'a
writer who uses words for show or without particular regard for
meaning'.

Sigh. Such is life.