swap_horiz William Safire 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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B.T.S. Atkins

B.T.S. Atkins is a British lexicographer recognized as a foundational pioneer in the practical application of computatio...

Theory British Oxford Bilingual

9.1 Excellent

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Manuel Seco

Manuel Seco Reymundo is a Spanish lexicographer and academic whose work focuses on the descriptive study of modern Spani...

Modern Spanish Usage Descriptive

9.1 Excellent

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Franz Josef Hausmann

Franz Josef Hausmann is a German scholar whose foundational research in metalexicography includes co-editing a major int...

German Academic Theory Metalexicography

9.0 Excellent

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Carl Darling Buck

Carl Darling Buck (1866–1955) was an American linguist and philologist who served as professor of Sanskrit and comparati...

American 20TH Century Comparative Greek

9.0 Excellent

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Philip Gove

Philip Gove was an American lexicographer best known for serving as the editor-in-chief of Webster's Third New Internati...

American Controversial 20TH Century Descriptive

8.9 Great

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Bryan Garner

Bryan Garner is a prominent American lexicographer known for his work clarifying contemporary usage of the English langu...

American Contemporary Usage English

8.5 Great

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Raven McDavid

Raven I. McDavid Jr. was an American linguist and dialectologist best known for his work on regional variation in Americ...

American 20TH Century Regional Dialect

8.4 Great

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Bruce Moore

Bruce Moore is an Australian lexicographer who served as director of the Australian National Dictionary Centre at the Un...

Modern Australian Descriptive 20TH 21ST Century

8.2 Great

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John Algeo

John Algeo was an American linguist and lexicographer renowned for his extensive research on the differences between Bri...

American Academic Descriptive 20TH 21ST Century

8.2 Great

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Thierry Fontenelle

Thierry Fontenelle is a Belgian computational linguist and lexicographer whose work connects dictionary editing with lan...

Belgian Bilingual Computational Descriptive

8.2 Great

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Luanne von Schneidemesser

Luanne von Schneidemesser is an American lexicographer and linguist recognized for her extensive research on regional di...

American Regional Dialect Dare

8.1 Great

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Chauncey Goodrich

Chauncey A. Goodrich (1817-1885) was an American clergyman, educator, and lexicographer who became Noah Webster's son-in...

American 19TH Century Descriptive American English

8.1 Great

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Frieda Steurs

Frieda Steurs is a Belgian and Dutch terminologist recognized for her foundational work in corporate terminology managem...

Terminology Belgian Bilingual Descriptive

8.1 Great

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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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Anne Curzan

Anne Curzan is an American lexicographer, linguist, and academic who currently serves as the dean of the College of Lite...

American Contemporary Academic English

7.7 Good

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Jean-Claude Boulanger

Jean-Claude Boulanger (1946-2018) was a Québécois linguist and lexicographer who taught at Université Laval and studied...

French Canadian Descriptive 20TH 21ST Century

7.6 Good

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Frank Horace Vizetelly

Frank Horace Vizetelly was an English-American lexicographer and editor prominent in the early 20th century. He is best...

American 20TH Century General Usage

7.4 Good

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Jane Solomon

Jane Solomon is an American lexicographer who has worked as a senior researcher for the online reference resource Dictio...

American Contemporary General English

7.3 Good

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David Skinner

David Skinner is an American writer and lexicographer best known for The Story of Ain't: America, Its Language, and the...

American 21ST Century Usage Prescriptive

7.3 Good