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Harold Wentworth was an American lexicographer whose 1944 American Dialect Dictionary and 1960 Dictionary of American Slang documented U.S. nonstandard speech.
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Harold Wentworth ranks #104 of 315 in the Lexicographer ranking, behind Igor Mel'čuk, ahead of Charlton T. Lewis.
Dictionary of American Regional English cofounder; strong dialect contribution, overshadowed by Cassidy and later DARE editors.
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