This fifth edition of the Australian Pocket Oxford Dictionary retains the popular features of the previous edition and adds many new Australian and international words and meanings. A major new feature of the dictionary is the labeling of Australian words and meanings with an Aust. regional marker.

Australian Pocket Oxford Dictionary

Literature & Fiction

Moore, Bruce

World Literature

Oxford University Press

This is a major revision of this landmark Australian dictionary that was first published in 1999. The Australian Oxford Dictionary is edited by Australia's most influential lexicographer, Dr. Bruce Moore, Director of the Australian National Dictionary Centre.  This flagship dictionary draws on the databases of Australian English at the Australian National Dictionary Centre--including its fast-growing national corpus current usage and its research into Australian English--and those of incomparable Australian Oxford Dictionary.  A distinguishing feature of the Australian Oxford Dictionary is its encyclopaedic content. There are more than 10,000 encyclopaedic entries, and these are more detailed than those in any comparable Australian dictionary. For example, the place-name entries not only geographically locate the place in question, but also provide information about the character of the place and its historical, economic, or political importance. There are detailed entries on many topics--political parties, religious organizations, historical events, mythological and fictional characters, and more.  In addition, many lexical items which are normally given only very brief treatment in conventional dictionaries are here often given detailed explanatory coverage. Many specific subjects, concepts, movements, and events are presented as self-contained articles following the dictionary entry, be it on black holes, existentialism, computers, Marxism, osmosis, Romanesque, tragedy, or the zodiac.  In both lexical and encyclopaedic entries special attention has been paid to Australian words and subjects.  The major feature of this new edition, however, is the addition of some 10,000 new lexical items, dramatically increasing the core size of the dictionary. The ultimate guide to contemporary Australian English, this is the most authoritative Australian Dictionary. But it is not just a dictionary for scholars or pedants--it describes our changing language in such a clear and entertaining way, that it is the essential reference for the new millennium.

Australian Oxford Dictionary

Reference

Dictionaries & Thesauruses

Australian Aboriginal Words in English records the Aboriginal contribution to Australian English and provides the fullest available information about their Aboriginal background and their Australian English history.

Australian Aboriginal Words in English: Their Origin and Meaning

Dixon, R.M.W.

Thomas, Mandy

The Australian National Dictionary (AND) is a dictionary of Australianisms. It includes words and meanings that have originated in Australia, that have a greater currency within Australia than elsewhere, or that have a special significance in Australian history. Whereas the first edition of the dictionary, published in 1988, contained about 10,000 headwords, compounds, idioms, and derivatives, this second edition contains over 16,000. The AND differs from general dictionaries in being based on historical principles, in the manner of the comprehensive Oxford English Dictionary (OED). The aim of AND2 is to chart the historical development of Australian words the definitions begin with the oldest sense and move through to the most recent sense. As part of this history, it includes all obsolete words and all obsolete senses; because it is concerned with the complete history of a word, the historical dictionary places more emphasis on the etymology of a word than does the general dictionary. The Australian National Dictionary is the only comprehensive, historically based record of the words and meanings that make up Australian English. It is a unique lexical map of Australian history and culture.

The Australian National Dictionary: Australian Words and Their Origins - 2 Volumes A-L and M-Z

For the first time ever the story of Australian English is about to be told in full. As part of our Centenary celebrations Oxford University Press Australia is proud to be publishing this significant contribution to the national landscape. Speaking our Language is written for people who want to know where Australian English came from, what the forces were that molded it, why it takes its present form, and where it is going. The subtitle of this book, The Story of Australian English, derives in part from the chronological story that the book traces: the story begins with Joseph Banks and Captain James Cook collecting indigenous words such as kangaroo and quoll in northern Queensland in 1770, and it continues from there right up to the present day, when Australian English is firmly established as the natural and national language of Australia. It is a 'story' in another sense as well: the story of development of Australian English is inextricably intertwined with the stories of Australian history and culture, and of the development of Australian identity. Of all the markers of identity, language is by far the most significant. This language we speak, and which gives voice to our Australian English is central to the process of giving voice to our Australian identity: in important ways, we are what we speak, and we are how we speak. Speaking our Language grew out of the research of the Australian National Dictionary Centre (ANDC) at the Australain National University. The Centre is named after the Australian National Dictionary, which was first published in 1988, and which includes some 10,000 Australian words. The Centre is now busy finalizing a second edition of the Australian National Dictionary, and expects to add about 4500 new words and meanings.

Speaking Our Language: The Story of Australian English

Words, Language & Grammar

The Australian Concise Oxford Dictionary provides an authoritative description of Australian and international English that is unrivalled by other concise dictionaries. This fifth edition has been thoroughly revised and updated, with hundreds of new words you won't find in any other dictionary. It provides unmatched coverage of Australian English for a dictionary in this format. It presents those words that are current and relevant in the Australian context. No other Australian dictionary can claim its authority. This authority has two bases: the Australian and the international. The dictionary was fully edited at the Australian National Dictionary Centre in Canberra. Through Oxford University Press, the editor, Dr Bruce Moore, had access to the most comprehensive database of the English language as it is used worldwide-the same database that informs the twenty-volume Oxford English Dictionary-and to the most recent distillation of it in the Concise Oxford Dictionary. Through the Centre, the editor also had access to the largest citation database of Australian English, the source of Oxford's Australian National Dictionary. The fifth edition of the Australian Concise Oxford Dictionary is another product of this union, and heralds a new era in Australian lexicography.

Australian Concise Oxford Dictionary 5th Edition

At last the real stories behind some of Australia's unique and best-loved words are now ready to be told. A companion volume to Bruce Moore's highly-successful Speaking Our Language, this major new work examines Australian words from two main perspectives: the histories of particular words, and the history of thematically linked words. This is a collection of words that have interesting, challenging and often disputed stories to be told about their origins. Designed to be read from beginning to end, or dipped into at any of the headwords, What's Their Story is the ideal reference for all lovers of our language.

What's Their Story?: A History of Australian Words

The fifth edition of the Australian Paperback Oxford Dictionary includes many new words and meanings, including many from the realms of sport, health, society, the environment and electronic communication. All Australian words and meanings are labelled with an Aust marker. The definitions are straightforward with guidance provided where word usage is controversial. Up to date encyclopaedic entries for the names of famous people, places, events, and institutions are provided.

Australian Oxford Paperback Dictionary

The warm corner: A history of the Moore family and their relatives : early pioneers of the Queanbeyan-Canberra district

B. Moore

Lanyon saga: A history of the Cunningham family and the Lanyon, Tuggeranong, and Wanniassa Estates in the A.C.T

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