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John Stephen Farmer was a British lexicographer who co-authored the seven-volume *Slang and its Analogues* in the 1890s alongside William Ernest Henley, a major historical slang record.

Jonathon Green is a British lexicographer who specializes in the documentation and study of slang. He compiled the three-volume Green's Dictionary of Slang, which was published in print in 2010 and launched as a digital online resource in 2016. The dictionary is a comprehensive historical survey of...

William Ernest Henley was a British poet and editor who co-authored the seven-volume *Slang and its Analogues* in the 1890s, establishing a major historical record of English slang.

Harold Wentworth was an American lexicographer whose research concentrated on regional, informal, and nonstandard varieties of American English. His American Dialect Dictionary, published in 1944, assembled vocabulary and usage evidence from communities across the United States. He later co-authored...

Born Earl Johnson in Richmond, California, E-40 rose to prominence in the Bay Area’s underground hip-hop scene throughout the 1990s with his distinctive, rapid-fire delivery and focus on street life observations and product promotion.

John Ayto is a British lexicographer whose work focuses on English etymology, slang, idioms, and culinary vocabulary. He co-authored the Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang with John Simpson and wrote reference works including the Dictionary of Word Origins and The Diner's Dictionary. His books are in...

Robert L. Chapman was an American lexicographer and reference editor. He edited multiple editions of Roget's International Thesaurus, including the fourth edition published in 1977 and later revisions. Chapman also compiled the New Dictionary of American Slang (1986, Harper & Row) and its subsequent...

Reinhold Aman was a German-American lexicographer who founded *Maledicta*, a prominent scholarly journal dedicated to the study of cursing, profanity, and verbal aggression, in 1977.

Tom Dalzell is an American lexicographer and author whose work concentrates on slang, unconventional English, and specialized vocabularies. He co-edited The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, published by Routledge in 2005 as a modern successor to Eric Partridge's earlier...

John Hotten was a British publisher who compiled the 1859 *Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words*, a pioneering reference work in the documentation of English slang.

Stuart Berg Flexner was an American lexicographer and writer whose work concentrated on slang, usage, and general American English. He co-edited the first edition of the Dictionary of American Slang with Harold Wentworth, published in 1960, and later served as editor in chief of the Random House Dic...

Eric Honeywood Partridge was a New Zealand-born British lexicographer, etymologist, and author of numerous reference works on the English language. Born near Waimate in 1894, he moved to Queensland in 1910 and later served in the Australian Imperial Force and the Royal Flying Corps during the First...

Francis Grose was an 18th-century English antiquary, illustrator, and lexicographer known for documenting monuments, folklore, and informal language. His Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, first published in 1785, assembled slang, cant, colloquial expressions, and occupational vocabulary tha...

Jesse Sheidlower is an American lexicographer and writer known for his work on slang, taboo vocabulary, and the historical development of English usage. He served as an editor at large for the Oxford English Dictionary and has contributed to research that documents words through dated evidence from...

Robert L. Chapman was an American lexicographer who edited Roget's Thesaurus in 1977 and 1992 and HarperCollins' New Dictionary of American Slang in 1986.

Grant Barrett (born 1970) is an American lexicographer of slang and new usage who compiled the 2004 Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang.

Orin Hargraves is an American lexicographer whose works include the 2002 Mighty Fine Words and Smashing Expressions on transatlantic English.