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Noah Webster was a prominent 19th-century American lexicographer. He developed standardized spellings and definitions for the English language, most notably through his comprehensive American Dictionary of the English Language. This work significantly influenced American English and continues to be...
William Dwight Whitney was a nineteenth-century American linguist, Sanskrit scholar, and lexicographer whose work helped establish linguistics as an academic discipline in the United States. He taught at Yale and wrote influential studies of language as a social institution rather than a fixed natur...
William Allen Neilson was a Scottish-American educator and lexicographer. In 1913, he served as editor-in-chief of the extensively revised Webster's New International Dictionary, a major English-language reference work. His place in the history of lexicography is connected to editorial oversight of...
