Everything about Lexicographers totally explained
A
lexicographer is a person devoted to the study of
lexicography, especially an author of a
dictionary.
Samuel Johnson, himself a lexicographer, defined a lexicographer as "a writer of dictionaries; a harmless drudge that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words". However Jonathon Green, in
Chasing the Sun: Dictionary-Makers and the Dictionaries They Made (1996) suggests that this was a piece of eighteenth century politeness, and that a clearer indication of Johnson's view is given a little later in the same text where he says "Though a
linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that
Babel cleft the world into, yet if he hadn't . . . studied the lexicons, yet he were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man as any
yeoman competently wise in his
mother dialect only".
Notable lexicographers
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