Best Americanisms
John Bartlett (1820–1905) was an American bookseller and publisher who owned the Harvard Cooperative bookstore in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is best known for compiling Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, an extensive reference work of passages, phrases, and proverbs that was first published in 1855....
Mitford Mathews was an American lexicographer best known for editing the Dictionary of Americanisms on Historical Principles, published in 1951 by the University of Chicago Press. The two-volume work traces the historical origins and usage of words unique to the United States. Mathews had previously...
Francisco J. Santamaría was a Mexican writer, educator, politician, and lexicographer noted for documenting regional Spanish vocabulary. His Diccionario de mejicanismos records words, meanings, and expressions associated with Mexican usage, placing them within the broader study of American varieties...
