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Noah Webster

Noah Webster was a prominent 19th-century American lexicographer. He developed standardized spellings and definitions fo...

American English Past Webster

9.4 Excellent

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Frederic Cassidy

Frederic Cassidy was an American lexicographer dedicated to documenting regional English dialects. He recognized a signi...

American 20TH Century English Dialect

8.9 Great

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John Wells

John Wells is a contemporary British lexicographer specializing in English pronunciation. His work significantly advance...

Contemporary British English Pronouncing

8.8 Great

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Jonathan Lighter

Jonathan Lighter was a prominent lexicographer specializing in American slang and historical language. He is best known...

American 20TH Century Historical English

8.6 Great

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Joan Hall

Joan Hall was a 20th-century American lexicographer specializing in English dialect. Her work focused on documenting reg...

American 20TH Century English Dialect

8.5 Great

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Bryan Garner

Bryan Garner is a prominent American lexicographer known for his work clarifying contemporary usage of the English langu...

American Contemporary Usage English

8.5 Great

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Hans Kurath

Hans Kurath was an Austrian-American linguist who directed the 1931 New England study behind the Linguistic Atlas of the...

American English Past Dialect

8.2 Great

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Joseph Emerson Worcester

Joseph Emerson Worcester was an American lexicographer and Noah Webster rival whose 1860 English dictionary was central...

American English Past Webster Rival

8.2 Great

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Sidney Landau

Sidney Landau was an American lexicographer who significantly shaped the field during the 20th century. His work focused...

American 20TH Century General English

8.1 Great

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Wolfgang Mieder

Wolfgang Mieder is an American lexicographer specializing in English-German language relations. His work focuses on pare...

American Contemporary English German Paremiology

8.1 Great

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Clarence Barnhart

Clarence Barnhart (1900-1993) was an American lexicographer who edited the Thorndike-Barnhart school dictionaries and th...

American General English Past

7.8 Good

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Robert Chapman

Robert Chapman was an American lexicographer who edited Roget's Thesaurus editions in 1977 and 1992 and HarperCollins' N...

American 20TH Century General English

7.7 Good

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Anne Curzan

Anne Curzan is an American language scholar at the University of Michigan and a member of the American Heritage Dictiona...

American Contemporary Academic English

7.7 Good

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Tom Dalzell

Tom Dalzell is an American slang lexicographer who co-edited The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional En...

American Contemporary General English

7.5 Good

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Frank Horace Vizetelly

Frank Horace Vizetelly was an English-American lexicographer who edited Funk & Wagnalls dictionaries and wrote a Literar...

American 20TH Century General Usage

7.4 Good

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Jane Solomon

Jane Solomon is an American lexicographer at Dictionary.com, known for documenting digital language and emoji usage in a...

American Contemporary General English

7.3 Good

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William Morris

William Morris was an American lexicographer who edited the first American Heritage Dictionary in 1969, using a 105-memb...

American 20TH Century General English

7.2 Good

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Laurence Urdang

Laurence Urdang was an American lexicographer and editor who founded Verbatim magazine in 1974 and edited numerous Engli...

American General English Past

7.1 Good

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Wilfred Funk

Wilfred Funk was an American lexicographer and publisher, president of Funk & Wagnalls from 1925 to 1940 and co-author o...

American 20TH Century General English

6.9 Fair

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James Hulbert

James Hulbert was a University of Chicago English professor and co-editor, with William Craigie, of the Dictionary of Am...

American 20TH Century General Historical

6.6 Fair