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Daniel Jones was a 20th-century British lexicographer renowned for his meticulous work developing the English Pronouncing Dictionary. Published initially in 1917, this dictionary established a foundational standard for phonetic transcription and pronunciation guides within the English language. It r...
John Wells is a contemporary British lexicographer specializing in English pronunciation. His work significantly advanced phonetic research through the development of X-SAMPA, a standardized system for representing speech sounds digitally. He created the Longman Pronunciation Dictionary, offering de...
Thomas Sheridan was an Irish actor and elocutionist whose 1780 General Dictionary of the English Language marked words with respelled pronunciations.
Thomas Dyche was an English schoolmaster and lexicographer whose New General English Dictionary appeared in 1735 and stayed in print into the 1790s.
Benjamin Martin was an English lexicographer and instrument maker whose Lingua Britannica Reformata appeared in 1749 before Samuel Johnson's 1755 dictionary.
