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

[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.

Thanks to the increased availability of modern editions, the OLD editors had access to a larger variety of classical works.

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.