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Charles Harrington Elster

In 1998, he, along with Richard Lederer, became founding co-hosts of the weekly radio showA Way with Words, broadcast by KPBS, San Diego Public Radio, and heard worldwide via streaming internet and podcast.

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In his 1999 book, The Big Book Of Beastly Mispronunciations, logophile Charles Harrington Elster noted that the vast majority of those he spoke with during the writing of his book as well as 99 percent of the 1985 usage panel of Morris & Morris' Harper Dictionary of Contemporary Usage specifically condemned the use of the word and characterized it as a mispronunciation.

Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences

Writing for The Wall Street Journal, Charles Harrington Elster calls the book a "pleasantly discursive and affectionate tribute to an antiquated art" in which Florey explains the concept and history of sentence diagramming with sentences by Lewis Carroll, Woody Allen, Henry James, Marcel Proust, Mark Twain, and William Faulkner.

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