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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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Manuel Seco

Manuel Seco Reymundo is a Spanish lexicographer and academic whose work focuses on the descriptive study of modern Spani...

Modern Spanish Usage Descriptive

9.1 Excellent

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Carl Darling Buck

Carl Darling Buck (1866–1955) was an American linguist and philologist who served as professor of Sanskrit and comparati...

American 20TH Century Comparative Greek

9.0 Excellent

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Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Bierce was an American Civil War veteran, journalist, and author known for his cynical and macabre short stories...

American Historical Satirical 19TH 20TH Century

9.0 Excellent

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Sherman Kuhn

Sherman M. Kuhn (1907-1991) was an American medievalist and lexicographer associated with the University of Michigan's M...

American Academic 20TH Century Historical

9.0 Excellent

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Henry Watson Fowler

Henry Watson Fowler was a 20th-century British lexicographer known for his meticulous study of English language usage. H...

20TH Century Usage British English

8.9 Great

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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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Philip Gove

Philip Gove was an American lexicographer best known for serving as the editor-in-chief of Webster's Third New Internati...

American Controversial 20TH Century Descriptive

8.9 Great

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Francis Brown

Francis Brown was a nineteenth-century American lexicographer specializing in Semitic languages. His most significant co...

American 19TH Century Biblical Hebrew

8.8 Great

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John Bartlett

John Bartlett (1820–1905) was an American bookseller and publisher who owned the Harvard Cooperative bookstore in Cambri...

American 19TH Century Historical Regional

8.8 Great

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Charles Short

Charles Short was a 19th-century American lexicographer renowned for his meticulous work compiling the *A New Latin Dict...

Classical American Victorian Latin

8.7 Great

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Calvert Watkins

Calvert Watkins was a 20th-century lexicographer specializing in comparative Indo-European languages. His work focused o...

American 20TH Century Comparative Indo European

8.7 Great

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Charles Briggs

Charles Briggs was a nineteenth-century American scholar specializing in biblical Hebrew lexicography. His significant c...

American 19TH Century Biblical Hebrew

8.7 Great

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James Strong

James Strong (1822–1894) was an American biblical scholar and theologian who compiled "Strong's Concordance" in 1890. Th...

American 19TH Century Biblical Theological

8.7 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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Anne Soukhanov

Anne Soukhanov is an American lexicographer who edited the 1999 Encarta World English Dictionary after serving as execut...

American 20TH Century General English

7.4 Good

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Frank Horace Vizetelly

Frank Horace Vizetelly was an English-American lexicographer and editor prominent in the early 20th century. He is best...

American 20TH Century General Usage

7.4 Good

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Steve Kleinedler

Steve Kleinedler is an American lexicographer who worked on American Heritage dictionaries, including the fifth edition...

American Contemporary General English

7.3 Good

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William Safire

William Safire (1929-2009) was an American journalist, columnist, and author who wrote The New York Times Magazine's "On...

American Usage Descriptive 20TH 21ST Century

7.3 Good

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William Morris

William Morris was a 20th-century American lexicographer best known for his editorial role in the creation of The Americ...

American 20TH Century General English

7.2 Good