The First Australian Dictionary

Author : Sarah Ogilvie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780195551891
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The First Australian Dictionary written by Sarah Ogilvie and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most comprehensive and up to date lower-primary dictionary available in Australia, jam-packed with features to encourage confidence in Australian primary school students learning to use a dictionary for the first time.

Author : Mitchell Rolls
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538134357
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Australian Aborigines written by Mitchell Rolls and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Aboriginal Australians first arrived on the continent at least 60,000 years ago, occupying and adapting to a range of environmental conditions—from tropical estuarine habitats, densely forested regions, open plains, and arid desert country to cold, mountainous, and often wet and snowy high country. Cultures adapted according to the different conditions and adapted again to environmental changes brought about by rising sea levels at the end of the last ice age. European colonization of the island continent in 1788 not only introduced diseases to which Aborigines had no immunity but also began an enduring and at times violent conflict over land and resources. Reconciliation between Aborigines and the settler population remains unresolved. This second edition of the Historical Dictionary of Australian Aborigines contains a chronology, an introduction, an extensive bibliography, and more than 300 cross-referenced entries on the politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture of the Aborigines. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the indigenous people of Australia.

Author : Oxford Dictionary
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780190309954
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oxford Australian First Dictionary written by Oxford Dictionary and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oxford Australian First Dictionary The perfect introduction to using a dictionary.Over 1500 headwords and 300 full-colour illustrations.Explicit identification of Oxford Wordlist words.Complimentary online activity sheets to practise dictionary skills.Additional illustrated section at the back with thematic wordlists covering content such as colours, numbers and shapes.

Author : Pat Manser
Publisher : Macquarie
ISBN 13 : 1760981095
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book More Than Words: The Making of the Macquarie Dictionary written by Pat Manser and published by Macquarie. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Editorial Committee of the dictionary of Australian English, led by Arthur Delbridge, were adamant that their dictionary was to be descriptive. It was an important point of difference from traditional dictionary policy. This dictionary would give an account of Australian English as it was heard and written. We wanted it all: spoken, written, technical, polite, rude. The speech of labourers, the jargon of merchants, swearwords, Australianisms, as well as the basic core of English vocabulary.' The idea for a dictionary of Australian English was conceived in the 1960s, but it wasn't until 1981 that the first edition of the Macquarie Dictionary was published. More Than Words tells the story of how the dictionary was brought to life during this period -- from identifying the need for a genuinely Australian dictionary to the long road towards publication -- and explores how the dictionary has evolved over the years since then.

Author : Pip Williams
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 1984820737
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dictionary of Lost Words written by Pip Williams and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • “Delightful . . . [a] captivating and slyly subversive fictional paean to the real women whose work on the Oxford English Dictionary went largely unheralded.”—The New York Times Book Review “A marvelous fiction about the power of language to elevate or repress.”—Geraldine Brooks, New York Times bestselling author of People of the Book Esme is born into a world of words. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, she spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, an Oxford garden shed in which her father and a team of dedicated lexicographers are collecting words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary. Young Esme’s place is beneath the sorting table, unseen and unheard. One day a slip of paper containing the word bondmaid flutters beneath the table. She rescues the slip and, learning that the word means “slave girl,” begins to collect other words that have been discarded or neglected by the dictionary men. As she grows up, Esme realizes that words and meanings relating to women’s and common folks’ experiences often go unrecorded. And so she begins in earnest to search out words for her own dictionary: the Dictionary of Lost Words. To do so she must leave the sheltered world of the university and venture out to meet the people whose words will fill those pages. Set during the height of the women’s suffrage movement and with the Great War looming, The Dictionary of Lost Words reveals a lost narrative, hidden between the lines of a history written by men. Inspired by actual events, author Pip Williams has delved into the archives of the Oxford English Dictionary to tell this highly original story. The Dictionary of Lost Words is a delightful, lyrical, and deeply thought-provoking celebration of words and the power of language to shape the world. WINNER OF THE AUSTRALIAN BOOK INDUSTRY AWARD

Author : Ken Wing Jan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780195515480
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My First Australian Dictionary and Thesaurus written by Ken Wing Jan and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My First Australian Dictionary and Thesaurus not only assists students to fully understand the meanings of words but helps them to differentiate shades of meanings of words as well. Key features include over 1,500 bold, colour headwords that students in this age range are likely to use in their writing and spacious page layout that will lead students directly to the information they seek.

Author : Mollie Gillen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 680 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Founders of Australia written by Mollie Gillen and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "On 13 May 1787 more than 1,500 people sailed with the eleven ships of the First Fleet to become the founders of the modern nation of Australia. After 20 years of research Mollie Gillen has produced the most comprehensive study to date of the people of the First Fleet. Based largely on original sources in Britain and Australia, it functions both ad a detailed historical reference work with much new information and also as a very readable social history. Every person who sailed with the First Fleet or was born on board has been included whether a child, convict, sailor, marine or officer. The result is a fascinating series of pen-pictures in a total of 1,442 biographical entries. The background of each first Fleeter is examined (including the circumstances of the crime and trial of each convict) as well as their lives after 1788 as they spread throguh New South Wales, Norfolk Island, Van Diemen's land and in some cases, returned to England ... The book includes extensive explanatory notes, is fully indexed with a number of maps, illustrations, and the facsimile signatures and marks of hundreds of First Fleeters. Twelve appendices include abstracts of biographical information, descriptions of the First Fleet ships and their crews, a chronology of the First Fleet, miscellaneous facts of interest, statistics and the "Phantom Fleeters": persons inaccurately claimed in earlier publications to be First Fleeters ..."--Inside front cover.

Author : Rusty Geller
Publisher : Virtualbookworm.com Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781602640740
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Americans' Survival Guide to Australia and Australian-American Dictionary written by Rusty Geller and published by Virtualbookworm.com Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This resource covers the basic and essential information the author and his family learned in order to survive their first few years living in Australia. It can help readers avoid making the same embarrassing mistakes and asking the same dumb questions they did. Included is a 1,500-word Australian-American dictionary. (Foreign Travel)

Author : John Henniker Heaton
Publisher : Sydney [etc.] G. Robertson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Australian Dictionary of Dates and Men of the Time written by John Henniker Heaton and published by Sydney [etc.] G. Robertson. This book was released on 1879 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Australian National Dictionary Centre
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195550269
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book The Australian National Dictionary written by Australian National Dictionary Centre and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 here than elsewhere, or that have a special significance in Australian history. Major features: It differs from general dictionaries in being based on historical principles, like the comprehensive Oxford English Dictionary. This means it describes the full history of a word, starting with its earliest appearance, establishing its origin, and documenting its use over time. All entries from the first edition, which was published in 1988, have been thoroughly revised and updated. 6000 new entries have been added. There are more than 16,000 Australian terms. They include: historical terms from the convict era, the gold rushes, farming, and the experience of warcolloquial terms, including rhyming slang and numerous lively and colourful idioms, regional terms from different states and territories, terms from Aboriginal English, a major dialect of Australian English. ..