Lexicographer

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

Some famous lexicographers:

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

Johnson famously defined a lexicographer as "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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