swap_horiz William Morris Alternatives

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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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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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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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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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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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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

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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 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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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

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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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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

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Jane Solomon

Jane Solomon is an American lexicographer at Dictionary.com, known for documenting digital language and emoji usage in a...

American Contemporary General English

7.3 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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David Jost

David Jost is an American Merriam-Webster editor and lexicographer, noted for professional dictionary editing rather tha...

American Contemporary General English

7.2 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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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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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