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Lexicographer

A lexicographer is a person devoted to the study of lexicography, especially an author of a dictionary.

Some famous lexicographers:

• Samuel Johnson
• Noah Webster
• Isaac Kaufmann Funk
• James Murray
• Henry Bradley
• William Craigie
• Charles Talbut Onions
• Henry Watson Fowler
• A. S. Hornby
• Sergei Ozhegov
• Vladimir Dal

Johnson famously defined a lexicographer as "Lexicographer: A writer of dictionaries; a harmless drudge that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words".

See also: List of lexicographers

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