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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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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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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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Adam Kilgarriff

Adam Kilgarriff was a British corpus linguist and lexicographer who co-created Sketch Engine and founded Lexical Computi...

English Corpus Computational Past

8.3 Great

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Patrick Hanks

Patrick Hanks was a British lexicographer and corpus linguist, editor of the 1979 Collins English Dictionary and later O...

English Corpus Past Names

8.1 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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John Sinclair

John Sinclair was a British linguist and lexicographer whose COBUILD project used computer corpora to reshape English le...

English Corpus Past Cobuild

8.0 Great

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Harold Orton

Harold Orton was a British dialectologist who directed the Survey of English Dialects at Leeds, collecting regional spee...

Survey 20TH Century British English

7.9 Good

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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

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Della Summers

Della Summers is a British lexicographer associated with Longman learner dictionaries, including the 1992 Longman Dictio...

20TH Century British English Learner

7.7 Good

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Rosamund Moon

Rosamund Moon is a British lexicographer and phraseology scholar, known for work on COBUILD and the 1998 study Fixed Exp...

Contemporary British English Corpus

7.7 Good

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Michael Quinion

Michael Quinion is a British etymologist who ran World Wide Words and contributed to the Oxford Dictionary of New Words,...

Contemporary British Digital English

7.6 Good

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Gwyneth Fox

Gwyneth Fox is a British lexicographer associated with corpus-based learners' dictionaries, including editorial work in...

British English Corpus Cobuild

7.6 Good

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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

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Ramesh Krishnamurthy

Ramesh Krishnamurthy is a corpus linguist and lexicographer associated with the University of Birmingham, known for COBU...

British English Corpus Computational

7.5 Good

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William Somner

William Somner was an English antiquary whose 1659 Dictionarium Saxonico-Latino-Anglicum became a standard early diction...

British English 17TH Century Anglo Saxon

7.4 Good