The Andrews translation was partially revised by Freund himself, then by Henry Drisler, and was finally edited by Short and Lewis.

The adoption of the book by Oxford University Press was the result of the failure of its own project to create a new Latin–English dictionary in 1875.

[3] While the Press had earlier published John Riddle's 1835 translation of Scheller's Latin–German dictionary, this was a much more expensive book.

Another dictionary focused on medieval Latin is J. F. Niermeyer's Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, first published in 1976,[8] with an enhanced second edition in year 2002, about 1500 pages.

On occasion people confuse Lewis and Short (or L&S) with Liddell and Scott, its Greek counterpart, entitled A Greek–English Lexicon.