Who was the most famous of English lexicographers?
A Dictionary of the English Language glossaries of "hard words": words that were technical, foreign, obscure or antiquated. But perhaps the greatest single fault of these early lexicographers was, as historian Henry Hitchings put it, that they "failed to give sufficient sense of [the English] language as it appeared "in use"." In that sense Dr. Johnson's dictionary was the first to comprehensively document the English lexicon. Johnson's dictionary was prepared at 17 Gough Square, London, an eclectic household, between the years of 1746 and 1755. By 1747 Johnson had written his "Plan of a Dictionary of the English Language", which spelled out his intentions and proposed
Esperanto lexicographers Esperanto lexicographers Esperanto lexicographers are individuals or groups, whether enthusiastic amateurs or trained linguists, who have produced single-language or bilingual dictionaries of Esperanto. More than 130 Esperantists, working singly or collectively, have published such dictionaries; several of these authors are listed in the "" category. In the specific case of Esperanto, most dictionary authors historically were and today still are non-specialists in the field of lexicography. A notable exception is Erich-Dieter Krause, a German professor of the Indonesian language, who wrote comprehensive dictionaries, both German–Esperanto (2007) and Esperanto-German (1999). Though most Esperanto dictionary compilers have been men, notable female Esperanto