The Dinkum Queensland Dictionary
Author : Richard Beckett
Publisher :
Page : 59 pages
File Size : 18,42 MB
Release : 1988
Category : English language
ISBN : 9780867771732
Author : Richard Beckett
Publisher :
Page : 59 pages
File Size : 18,42 MB
Release : 1988
Category : English language
ISBN : 9780867771732
Author : Susan Butler
Publisher : Text Publishing
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 19,80 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1921351985
Do you know what a Vic-wit is? Have you ever had a nibble pie? Now in it's third edition, The Dinkum Dictionary, is even better than ever. This fascinating book describes the origins and usage of words ranging from 'mulga' to 'anzac', from 'furphy' to 'blue', and this edition includes even more words and terms. Butler reveals little-known facts about our ways of communicating with each other. She examines the diverse range of influences that have coloured our language, indigenous & non-indigenous, revealing the richness of Australia's culture.
Author : Richard Beckett
Publisher : New Holland Australia(AU)
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 11,7 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Australianisms
ISBN : 9781864366457
Packed with classic lines of vernacular humour and incisive observations, The New Dinkum Aussie Dictionary will open your eyes to the strangeness and the poetry of Australian lingo.Because Aussies speak like nobody else on this great, wide planet, you need to read this book to really understand what's going on Down Under. The New Dinkum Aussie Dictionary is a completely revised and expanded edition of this perennial favourite.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 21,51 MB
Release : 1991
Category : English language
ISBN : 9781862821309
Author : Lenie Johansen
Publisher : Penguin Australia
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 36,1 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :
Guide to the Australian vernacular, revised and updated to include more than 500 new words and phrases since the book's first release in 1988. Illustrated with numerous cartoons.
Author : Richard Beckett
Publisher :
Page : 59 pages
File Size : 28,44 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Australianisms
ISBN :
Author : Australian Tourist Commission
Publisher :
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 40,39 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Australianisms
ISBN :
Author : Allan Cornwall
Publisher :
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 47,90 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Australianisms
ISBN : 9781862820890
Author : Lenie Johanse
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 37,8 MB
Release : 2002
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Tom Dalzell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 15065 pages
File Size : 29,64 MB
Release : 2015-06-26
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1317372514
Booklist Top of the List Reference Source The heir and successor to Eric Partridge's brilliant magnum opus, The Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, this two-volume New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English is the definitive record of post WWII slang. Containing over 60,000 entries, this new edition of the authoritative work on slang details the slang and unconventional English of the English-speaking world since 1945, and through the first decade of the new millennium, with the same thorough, intense, and lively scholarship that characterized Partridge's own work. Unique, exciting and, at times, hilariously shocking, key features include: unprecedented coverage of World English, with equal prominence given to American and British English slang, and entries included from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, India, South Africa, Ireland, and the Caribbean emphasis on post-World War II slang and unconventional English published sources given for each entry, often including an early or significant example of the term’s use in print. hundreds of thousands of citations from popular literature, newspapers, magazines, movies, and songs illustrating usage of the headwords dating information for each headword in the tradition of Partridge, commentary on the term’s origins and meaning New to this edition: A new preface noting slang trends of the last five years Over 1,000 new entries from the US, UK and Australia New terms from the language of social networking Many entries now revised to include new dating, new citations from written sources and new glosses The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English is a spectacular resource infused with humour and learning – it’s rude, it’s delightful, and it’s a prize for anyone with a love of language.