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Edward William Lane

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English Arabic Bilingual Past

8.37 Great

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James Curtis Hepburn

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Japanese English Bilingual Past

7.73 Good

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Thomas Elyot

Thomas Elyot was a 16th-century English diplomat, scholar, and humanist who significantly advanced English Renaissance l...

English Latin Pioneering Bilingual

7.70 Good

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Robert Morrison

Robert Morrison was a Scottish Protestant missionary and lexicographer who produced the first Chinese-English dictionary...

English Chinese Bilingual Past

7.69 Good

5

John Florio

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Italian English Bilingual Past

7.56 Good

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Thomas Cooper

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Classical British Latin Bilingual

7.55 Good

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Jerry Norman

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English Bilingual Past Manchu

7.45 Good

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Randle Cotgrave

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French English Bilingual Past

7.43 Good

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Vaman Shivram Apte

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English Bilingual Past Sanskrit

7.41 Good

10

Einar Haugen

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Norwegian English Bilingual Past

7.40 Good

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Niall Ó Dónaill

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English Irish Bilingual Past

7.40 Good

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Adoniram Judson

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English Bilingual Past Burmese

7.39 Good

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Ferdinand Kittel

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English Bilingual Past Kannada

7.37 Good

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Thomas Thomas

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Classical British Latin Bilingual

7.22 Good

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Tomás de Bhaldraithe

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English Irish Bilingual Past

7.21 Good

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James Legge

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English Chinese Bilingual Past

7.17 Good

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James Redhouse

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English Turkish Bilingual Past

7.14 Good

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Lin Yutang

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English Chinese Bilingual Past

7.07 Good

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Hermann Gundert

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English Bilingual Past Malayalam

7.01 Good

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Soleiman Haim

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English Persian Bilingual Past

6.91 Fair