The dictionary was first published in 1959 and has since undergone several revisions, with the most recent edition being published in 2007. The Benson Recnik is widely regarded as a standard reference work for both English and Serbo-Croatian languages.
In collaboration with his wife, Vera Benson, and later with the help of other scholars, Morton Benson created a comprehensive English-Serbo-Croatian and Serbo-Croatian-English dictionary. This monumental work, known as the "Benson Recnik" or "Morton Benson Recnik", contains over 60,000 entries, making it an essential reference for scholars, translators, and language learners. morton benson recnik