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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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John Chadwick

John Chadwick (1920-1998) was an English classical scholar, linguist, and lexicographer who worked with Michael Ventris...

Classical 20TH Century Historical English

9.1 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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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 lexicographer who specializes in the documentation and study of slang. He compiled the three...

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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Robert Lewis

Robert Lewis was an American lexicographer and medievalist associated with the Middle English Dictionary, a historical d...

American Academic 20TH Century Historical

8.4 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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Bartlett Jere Whiting

Bartlett Jere Whiting was a 20th-century American lexicographer specializing in early American proverbs. His significant...

American 20TH Century Historical English

8.0 Great

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W.E. Henley

W. E. Henley (1849-1903) was an English poet, editor, and literary figure who also contributed to historical lexicograph...

19TH Century Historical British English

8.0 Great

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Harold Wentworth

Harold Wentworth was an American lexicographer whose research concentrated on regional, informal, and nonstandard variet...

American 20TH Century English Slang

7.9 Good

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Morris Palmer Tilley

Morris Palmer Tilley was an American proverb scholar whose 1950 dictionary cataloged English proverbs from the 16th and...

American 20TH Century Historical English

7.9 Good

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John R. Clark Hall

John R. Clark Hall was a British philologist and scholar of Old English whose work aided the study of early medieval lan...

20TH Century Historical British English

7.8 Good

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Clarence Major

Clarence Major is an American poet, novelist, painter, and lexicographer born in 1936 in Atlanta, Georgia. He gained par...

American 20TH Century Historical Descriptive

7.8 Good

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Robert Chapman

Robert L. Chapman was an American lexicographer and reference editor. He edited multiple editions of Roget's Internation...

American 20TH Century General English

7.7 Good

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Reinhold Aman

Reinhold Aman was a German-American scholar and lexicographer recognized for his extensive research into offensive langu...

American 20TH Century Slang Maledicta

7.7 Good

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Mitford Mathews

Mitford Mathews was an American lexicographer best known for editing the Dictionary of Americanisms on Historical Princi...

American 20TH Century Historical English

7.6 Good

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Eric Stanley

Eric Gerald Stanley was a German-born British academic and lexicographer who specialized in Old English and Anglo-Saxon...

20TH Century Historical British English

7.6 Good

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Stuart Berg Flexner

Stuart Berg Flexner was an American lexicographer and writer whose work concentrated on slang, usage, and general Americ...

American 20TH Century English Slang

7.4 Good

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James Hulbert

James R. Hulbert was an English scholar and University of Chicago professor who worked in historical lexicography. He co...

American 20TH Century General Historical

6.6 Fair