Good morning,
Many thanks to all of you who responded to my "Friday Muse". Listed below is the summary of responses. Have a great week.
verbiphile, logophile, verbivore, Politician, Philologist, dictiophile, poet, wordsmith, etymolophile, Some of the variations of Pedant might suffice. As in Sesquipedalian. Or, some compounds of Locution as in Circumlocution or Elocution or Eloquent. etymologist, etymologist would *have* to be a lover of words .
Try Linguaphile
lin.gua.phile
\'lin_e-gw*-.fi_-l\ n [L lingua tongue, language]
1: one who is enthusiastic about languages and words
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