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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
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".