She is after all, one of the most thoughtful, accomplished and influential wordsmiths of our time.

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Wordsmiths are needed to write ad copy, compose jingles, write speeches for executives to give at trade shows, and so forth.

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And in doing so, this trio of amateur wordsmiths belongs to one of baseball's quirkiest subcultures: pitchers who double as crossword nerds.

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In the first round of the political game, wordsmiths are needed to script TV ads, write candidate speeches, write op-eds, and the like.

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New composers in jazz function like emerging wordsmiths.

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The big winner is William Shakespeare, with four hundred and fifty-five, topping even the Yahwist and his co-authors, the wordsmiths who churned out the Bible but managed to come up with only four hundred quotable passages.

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Bell, who has been a crossword puzzle buff since he was 10, and a team of five or six other wordsmiths (the puns in the office, Bell says, are frequent and frequently bad) come up with an initial list of as many as 1, 000 names.

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