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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

2

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

3

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

5

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

8

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

9

Francis Junius

Francis Junius was a German-born Dutch philologist whose Gothic glossary and 1743 Etymologicum Anglicanum made him a pio...

Germanic English 17TH Century Etymological

7.9 Good

10

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

11

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

15

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

16

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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George Hickes

George Hickes was an English divine and scholar whose 1703-1705 Thesaurus of old northern languages advanced Anglo-Saxon...

British English 17TH Century Runic

7.2 Good

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John Kersey

John Kersey was an English philologist who compiled Dictionarium Anglo-Britannicum in 1708 after editing Phillips's New...

General British English 17TH Century

7.1 Good

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Edward Phillips

Edward Phillips was an English lexicographer whose 1658 New World of English Words was the first folio English dictionar...

British English 17TH Century Encyclopedic

6.4 Fair