A Dictionary of Australian Colloquialisms

A Dictionary of Australian Colloquialisms
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 372
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Download or read book A Dictionary of Australian Colloquialisms written by Gerald Alfred Wilkes and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1990 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available in a fourth, revised, and greatly expanded edition, A Dictionary of Australian Colloquialisms records the ingenuity of the Australian vernacular and provides a unique insight into Australian life and culture. This well-known dictionary, first published in 1978, offers the first and the most recent colloquial coinages. Words and idioms are drawn from a wide range of historical and contemporary sources--chiefly newspapers, magazines and novels--and each entry is shown in context, with origins and derivations.


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