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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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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

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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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Jonathon Green

Jonathon Green is a British slang lexicographer whose Green's Dictionary of Slang appeared in print in 2010 and online i...

Historical English Current Slang

8.7 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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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

7

Harold Wentworth

Harold Wentworth was an American lexicographer whose 1944 American Dialect Dictionary and 1960 Dictionary of American Sl...

American 20TH Century English Slang

7.9 Good

8

John R. Clark Hall

John R. Clark Hall was a British Old English scholar whose Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, first published in 1894, rema...

20TH Century Historical British English

7.8 Good

9

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

10

Mitford Mathews

Mitford Mathews was an American lexicographer who edited the 1951 Dictionary of Americanisms on Historical Principles fo...

American 20TH Century Historical English

7.6 Good

11

Eric Stanley

Eric Stanley was a German-born British Anglo-Saxonist who advised the Oxford English Dictionary on Old English materials...

20TH Century Historical British English

7.6 Good

12

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

14

Allen Walker Read

Allen Walker Read was an American linguist and lexicographer renowned for his meticulous historical research, including...

American Historical English Past

7.3 Good

15

Robert L. Chapman

Robert L. Chapman was an American lexicographer who edited Roget's Thesaurus in 1977 and 1992 and HarperCollins' New Dic...

American English Past Slang

7.2 Good

16

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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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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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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Grant Barrett

Grant Barrett (born 1970) is an American lexicographer of slang and new usage who compiled the 2004 Oxford Dictionary of...

American English Current Slang

6.8 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