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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

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Aurélio Buarque de Holanda Ferreira

Aurélio Buarque de Holanda Ferreira was a prominent Brazilian lexicographer, philologist, and translator. He is best kno...

20TH Century General Monolingual Brazilian Portuguese

9.1 Excellent

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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

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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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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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Thomas Northcote Toller

Thomas Northcote Toller was a British lexicographer specializing in Anglo-Saxon English. He is notable for his meticulou...

Historical British Victorian English

8.7 Great

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Henry Sweet

Henry Sweet was a British lexicographer and phonetician active during the Victorian era. He significantly advanced the u...

British Victorian English Anglo Saxon

8.7 Great

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Frederick Furnivall

Frederick Furnivall was a British philologist central to the development of lexicography. He significantly contributed t...

British Victorian English Oed

8.6 Great

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Joseph Bosworth

Joseph Bosworth was a British lexicographer working during the Victorian era. He focused on historical English and Anglo...

Historical British Victorian English

8.5 Great

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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

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Niccolò Tommaseo

Niccolò Tommaseo was a prominent 19th-century Italian lexicographer. He is best known for his ambitious project creating...

Italian Comprehensive 19TH Century General

8.3 Great

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Angus Stevenson

Angus Stevenson is a British lexicographer and dictionary editor who joined Oxford University Press in 1988. His work ha...

21ST Century British Oxford Descriptive

8.3 Great

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Michael Rundell

Michael Rundell is a contemporary British lexicographer specializing in English language resources for learners. His wor...

Contemporary British English Macmillan

8.1 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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Catherine Soanes

Catherine Soanes is a British lexicographer and dictionary editor associated with Oxford reference publishing. She serve...

21ST Century British Oxford Descriptive

8.1 Great

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Charles Richardson

Charles Richardson (1775–1865) was a British educator and lexicographer best known for compiling the 1836 "New Dictionar...

19TH Century Historical British English

8.0 Great

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William Somner

William Somner (1598–1669) was an English antiquary and scholar based in Canterbury, Kent. His major work, the Dictionar...

British English 17TH Century Anglo Saxon

7.4 Good

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George Hickes

George Hickes (1642–1715) was an English scholar, linguist, and divine who made contributions to the study of early medi...

British English 17TH Century Runic

7.2 Good

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Thomas Dyche

Thomas Dyche was an English schoolmaster, lexicographer, and writer active in the early 18th century. He is best known f...

18TH Century General British English

6.8 Fair

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Edward Phillips

Edward Phillips was an English writer and lexicographer active in the seventeenth century. His best-known reference work...

British English 17TH Century Encyclopedic

6.4 Fair