The Australian Language: An Examination of the English Language and English Speech as Used in Australia, from Convict Days to the Present, with Special Reference to the Growth of Indigenous Idiom and Its Use by Australian Writersp.309-326; Discussion of Aboriginal language and impression made on English; Pidgin; Meanings of words. |
Contents
Preface ix | 4 |
Good English and All That | 7 |
What We Have Sacrificed | 20 |
Copyright | |
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Aboriginal American Anzac appears applied Australian English Australian language Australian slang Australian speech bandicoot become beer bird bluey Bulletin bush bushranger called cattle century cockatoo Cockney colonial colour convicts denote derived describe Dictionary digger dillybag diphthong drink early English dialect English slang especially example expressions girl give Guinea head horse indigenous Jack kangaroo known land larrikin linguistic mainly mallee meaning Melbourne migrants name given native Ned Kelly nickname Northern Territory noted one's originally outback person phrase pidgin popular prison probably pronunciation Queensland recorded reference rhyming slang river shearer shearing sheep soldier someone South Australia South Wales spinner squatter standard English station surf surfboard swag Sydney Tasmania two-up verb Victoria vocabulary vowels Western Australia Whence wool woolshed word World World War II writer Zealand