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Philip Gove was an American lexicographer best known for serving as the editor-in-chief of Webster's Third New International Dictionary, published in 1961. Under his leadership, the dictionary adopted a strictly descriptive linguistic approach, aiming to record how the English language was actually...

Jean Dubois (1920-2015) was a French linguist, grammarian, and lexicographer whose work was closely associated with Larousse. He co-authored and edited reference works including Dictionnaire du français contemporain, Introduction à la lexicographie, and Dictionnaire de linguistique, published in 197...

Bill Ramson was an Australian lexicographer who served as the director of the Australian National Dictionary Project at the Australian National University. He played a crucial role in compiling the Australian National Dictionary, which documents the distinct historical vocabulary of Australian Engli...

Raven I. McDavid Jr. was an American linguist and dialectologist best known for his work on regional variation in American English. He contributed extensively to American dialect studies and served as a fieldworker and editor for the Linguistic Atlas of the United States and Canada. His research emp...

Angus Stevenson is a British lexicographer and dictionary editor who joined Oxford University Press in 1988. His work has included editing the Oxford Dictionary of English and the Concise Oxford English Dictionary, general reference works describing contemporary English vocabulary. He also led dicti...

John Algeo was an American linguist and lexicographer renowned for his extensive research on the differences between British and American English dialects. During his academic career, which included a long tenure at the University of Georgia, he authored and edited numerous foundational texts, inclu...

Iorgu Iordan was a 20th-century Romanian linguist, philologist, and lexicographer recognized for his extensive academic work on the Romanian language. He was a prominent professor and a corresponding member of the Romanian Academy. Iordan made significant contributions to Romance linguistics and aut...

Thierry Fontenelle is a Belgian computational linguist and lexicographer whose work connects dictionary editing with language technology. He studied how the machine-readable Collins-Robert English-French Dictionary could be converted into a lexical-semantic database, a subject developed in his 1997...

Bruce Moore is an Australian lexicographer who served as director of the Australian National Dictionary Centre at the University of Canberra and as editor of the Australian Oxford Dictionary, published in 1999. His work has focused on documenting the historical and regional vocabulary of Australian...

Lynne Murphy is an American linguist and professor of linguistics at the University of Sussex. Her research includes lexical semantics, especially the relationships among words and the ways meanings vary across communities. She writes the blog Separated by a Common Language and published The Prodiga...

Frieda Steurs is a Belgian and Dutch terminologist recognized for her foundational work in corporate terminology management and international lexicographical standards.

Chauncey A. Goodrich (1817-1885) was an American clergyman, educator, and lexicographer who became Noah Webster's son-in-law and literary successor. He supervised revisions of Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language after Webster's death, including the 1847 New and Revised Edition and...

Catherine Soanes is a British lexicographer and dictionary editor associated with Oxford reference publishing. She served as an editor of the Oxford Dictionary of English and the Compact Oxford English Dictionary, works designed to provide general-purpose reference information about English words an...

Lazăr Șăineanu (1859–1934) was a prominent Romanian philologist, linguist, and historian of literature. He is best known for his 1896 publication, the Dicționarul universal al limbii române (Universal Dictionary of the Romanian Language), which was a pioneering work in the field of Romanian etymolog...

John Weelkes’s “Thule” is a complex six-voice madrigal from his 1600 collection. Noteworthy for its innovative chromatic harmony, it vividly describes the mythical island of Thule. This work is particularly appreciated by musicologists and choral enthusiasts interested in late Renaissance English vo...

Clarence Major is an American poet, novelist, painter, and lexicographer born in 1936 in Atlanta, Georgia. He gained particular recognition for compiling 'Juba to Jive: A Dictionary of African-American Slang,' which documents the evolution of Black vernacular language from slavery through the 20th c...

Anne Curzan is an American lexicographer, linguist, and academic who currently serves as the dean of the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts at the University of Michigan. She is a recognized scholar of English language history and prescriptivism, frequently examining how English usage rule...

Jean-Claude Boulanger (1946-2018) was a Québécois linguist and lexicographer who taught at Université Laval and studied French usage in Quebec. He directed the editorial work of Dictionnaire québécois d'aujourd'hui, first published in 1992, and contributed to dictionaries for young readers, French r...

Jane Solomon is an American lexicographer who has worked as a senior researcher for the online reference resource Dictionary.com. Her work focuses on the documentation of digital language, including the evolving definitions and usage of emojis in modern communication. She is also the author of a chi...

William Safire (1929-2009) was an American journalist, columnist, and author who wrote The New York Times Magazine's "On Language" column from 1979 until his death. The column discussed usage, word histories, political rhetoric, and changes in American English for a general readership. Safire also w...