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John Stephen Farmer was a British lexicographer and author known for his comprehensive work in documenting non-standard English vocabulary. His most significant academic contribution was co-authoring the seven-volume reference work Slang and its Analogues with William Ernest Henley, published betwee...

W. E. Henley (1849-1903) was an English poet, editor, and literary figure who also contributed to historical lexicography. With John Stephen Farmer, he compiled and edited Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present, a seven-volume dictionary published between 1890 and 1904. The work records slang, can...

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, literary critic, and editor known for his influential role in the late Victorian literary scene. He co-edited several prominent periodicals, including the "National Observer," where he championed the works of writers like Thomas Hardy and Rudyard Kipling. As...

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 scholar and lexicographer recognized for his extensive research into offensive language. In 1977, he founded the journal Maledicta, an academic publication dedicated to the study of cursing, profanity, slang, and verbal aggression. Through this journal and his rel...

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 Camden Hotten was a 19th-century English publisher, bookseller, and lexicographer. He is best known for compiling the 1859 *Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words*, which served as a pioneering reference work in the formal documentation of informal English. His London publishing hou...

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...

Albert Barrère (1826-1896) was a French-born lexicographer who worked in English and French and specialized in colloquial language, slang, and criminal cant. His best-known reference work, Argot and Slang: A New French and English Dictionary of the Cant Words, published in 1887, records informal voc...

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, professor of English literature, and editor of reference works. He edited the fourth and fifth editions of Roget's International Thesaurus, published in 1977 and 1992, and also edited HarperCollins' New Dictionary of American Slang in 1986 and the The...

Grant Barrett is an American lexicographer, writer, editor, and broadcaster known for documenting slang, jargon, and new words. He compiled and edited the Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang, published by Oxford University Press in 2004, and later produced the Official Dictionary of Unoffi...

Orin Hargraves is an American lexicographer and writer whose work examines English usage, idioms, and differences between varieties of English. His book Mighty Fine Words and Smashing Expressions, published in 2002, discusses expressions associated with American and British English and explains how...