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James Murray

James Murray dedicated his life to documenting the history of the English language. As chief editor of the Oxford Englis...

Historical English Past Oed

9.7 Brilliant

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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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Charles du Fresne du Cange

Charles du Fresne du Cange (1610-1688) was a French lexicographer renowned for his *Glossarium Medii et Infantium*. This...

French Medieval Historical 17TH Century

9.2 Excellent

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Walther von Wartburg

Walther von Wartburg was a 20th-century Swiss lexicographer specializing in Gallo-Romance languages. He is primarily kno...

Swiss French 20TH Century Historical

9.2 Excellent

5

Joan Coromines

Joan Coromines was a Catalan lexicographer renowned for his exhaustive work on the Catalan language. His most significan...

Comprehensive 20TH Century Catalan Etymological

9.2 Excellent

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Edward William Lane

Edward William Lane was a 19th-century lexicographer renowned for his comprehensive Arabic-English Lexicon. Published be...

English Arabic Bilingual Past

9.1 Excellent

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Walter Skeat

Walter Skeat was a British lexicographer renowned for his meticulous study of Old English and Anglo-Saxon roots. His Ety...

British Victorian English Anglo Saxon

9.1 Excellent

8

Otto Jespersen

Otto Jespersen was a prominent 20th-century Danish linguist known primarily for his pioneering work in lexicography. He...

Danish 20TH Century Historical English

9.1 Excellent

9

Daniel Jones

Daniel Jones was a 20th-century British lexicographer renowned for his meticulous work developing the English Pronouncin...

20TH Century British English Pronouncing

9.0 Excellent

10

Henry Liddell

Henry Liddell was a British scholar renowned for his meticulous work as editor of Liddell and Scott’s Greek-English Lexi...

Classical English Greek Past

8.9 Great

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Peter Mark Roget

Peter Mark Roget was a nineteenth-century physician best known for creating the *Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases*...

Reference English Past Thesaurus

8.9 Great

12

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

14

Sebastián de Covarrubias

Sebastián de Covarrubias created the *Tesoro*, a groundbreaking 17th-century Spanish dictionary published in 1611. This...

Spanish 17TH Century Pioneering Monolingual

8.4 Great

15

Michael Quinion

Michael Quinion is a British etymologist who ran World Wide Words and contributed to the Oxford Dictionary of New Words,...

Contemporary British Digital English

7.6 Good

16

William Somner

William Somner was an English antiquary whose 1659 Dictionarium Saxonico-Latino-Anglicum became a standard early diction...

British English 17TH Century Anglo Saxon

7.4 Good

17

George Hickes

George Hickes was an English divine and scholar whose 1703-1705 Thesaurus of old northern languages advanced Anglo-Saxon...

British English 17TH Century Runic

7.2 Good

18

Sol Steinmetz

Sol Steinmetz was an American lexicographer who helped edit the Barnhart Dictionary of New English volumes, published in...

American 20TH Century English Random House

7.2 Good

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John Kersey

John Kersey was an English philologist who compiled Dictionarium Anglo-Britannicum in 1708 after editing Phillips's New...

General British English 17TH Century

7.1 Good

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Edward Phillips

Edward Phillips was an English lexicographer whose 1658 New World of English Words was the first folio English dictionar...

British English 17TH Century Encyclopedic

6.4 Fair