swap_horiz Robert L. Chapman Alternatives

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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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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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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

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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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Joseph Wright

Joseph Wright was a British lexicographer primarily known for his extensive work documenting regional English dialects....

Historical English Past Dialect

8.7 Great

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Jonathan Lighter

Jonathan Lighter was a prominent lexicographer specializing in American slang and historical language. He is best known...

American 20TH Century Historical English

8.6 Great

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Hans Kurath

Hans Kurath was an Austrian-American linguist who directed the 1931 New England study behind the Linguistic Atlas of the...

American English Past Dialect

8.2 Great

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Joseph Emerson Worcester

Joseph Emerson Worcester was an American lexicographer and Noah Webster rival whose 1860 English dictionary was central...

American English Past Webster Rival

8.2 Great

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Eric Partridge

Eric Partridge was a New Zealand-born British lexicographer famous for his 1937 *A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventiona...

Usage English Past Slang

8.0 Great

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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

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Clarence Barnhart

Clarence Barnhart (1900-1993) was an American lexicographer who edited the Thorndike-Barnhart school dictionaries and th...

American General English Past

7.8 Good

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Robert Barnhart

Robert K. Barnhart (1933-2007) was an American lexicographer who edited The Barnhart Dictionary of Etymology in 1988 and...

American English Past Etymology

7.8 Good

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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

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Francis Grose

Francis Grose was an English antiquary and lexicographer whose Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue documented slan...

English Past Slang 18C

7.6 Good

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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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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

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Laurence Urdang

Laurence Urdang was an American lexicographer and editor who founded Verbatim magazine in 1974 and edited numerous Engli...

American General English Past

7.1 Good

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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