It systematically covers both the Ekavian and Jekavian literary dialects, as well as lexical variants used across Serbia, Bosnia, and Croatia.

Morton Benson was a distinguished American linguist whose work bridged a critical gap between the English and South Slavic language worlds. His dictionaries are not mere wordlists but comprehensive, scholarly works that have become indispensable tools for anyone seriously engaging with the Serbian (and formerly Serbo-Croatian) language.