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Flash Jim: The astonishing story of the convict fraudster who wrote Australia's first dictionary by Kel Richards
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
The astonishing story of James Hardy Vaux, writer of Australia's first dictionary and first true-crime memoir If you wear 'togs', tell a 'yarn', call someone 'sly', or refuse to 'snitch' on a friend then you are talking like a convict.These words, and hundreds of others, once left colonial magistrates b ...Show more
Story of Australian English by Kel Richards
$29.99 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
The English language arrived in Australia with the first motley bunch of European settlers on 26 January 1788. Today there is clearly a distinctive Australian regional dialect with its own place among the global family of 'Englishes'. How did this come about? Where did the distinctive pattern, accent, a ...Show more
Word of the Day : Wordwatching by Kel Richards
$19.95 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
An entertaining, inspiring and enriching collection of some of the odder words of the English language and the stories behind them. Filled with compelling and compulsively interesting information and the odd terse verse.
Wordmap : What words are used where in Australia by Kel Richards & the Macquarie Dictionary
$22.95 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
This is a fascinating and often very funny book of the words we use in everyday speech. From Adelaide to Armidale, Darwin to Deniliquin - the meanings might be the same, but the words are often very different! In conjunction with the Macquarie Library, ABC Online conducted a poll amongst the ABC audienc ...Show more
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