The New Dinkum Aussie Dictionary

The New Dinkum Aussie Dictionary PDF

Author: Richard Beckett

Publisher: New Holland Australia(AU)

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13: 9781864366457

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Packed with classic lines of vernacular humour and incisive observations, The New Dinkum Aussie Dictionary will open your eyes to the strangeness and the poetry of Australian lingo.Because Aussies speak like nobody else on this great, wide planet, you need to read this book to really understand what's going on Down Under. The New Dinkum Aussie Dictionary is a completely revised and expanded edition of this perennial favourite.

The Dinkum Dictionary

The Dinkum Dictionary PDF

Author: Susan Butler

Publisher: Text Publishing

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 1921351985

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Do you know what a Vic-wit is? Have you ever had a nibble pie? Now in it's third edition, The Dinkum Dictionary, is even better than ever. This fascinating book describes the origins and usage of words ranging from 'mulga' to 'anzac', from 'furphy' to 'blue', and this edition includes even more words and terms. Butler reveals little-known facts about our ways of communicating with each other. She examines the diverse range of influences that have coloured our language, indigenous & non-indigenous, revealing the richness of Australia's culture.

The Dinkum Dictionary

The Dinkum Dictionary PDF

Author: Lenie Johansen

Publisher: Penguin Australia

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 544

ISBN-13:

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Guide to the Australian vernacular, revised and updated to include more than 500 new words and phrases since the book's first release in 1988. Illustrated with numerous cartoons.

The Penguin Book of Australian Slang

The Penguin Book of Australian Slang PDF

Author: Lenie Johansen

Publisher: Penguin Books

Published: 1996-01

Total Pages: 536

ISBN-13: 9780140255737

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The Penguin Book of Australian Slang scales the heights - and plumbs the depths - of the Australian language. For twenty years Lenie Johansen has been tuning in to and recording what Australians really say on the streets, in the pubs and to their family and mates. In this remarkable collection of classic and current colloquialisms she displays for readers all the inventiveness with words and the love of colourful expressions that have made Oz English unique.

Fair Dinkum! Aussie Slang

Fair Dinkum! Aussie Slang PDF

Author: H.G. Nelson

Publisher: National Library of Australia

Published: 2015-11-01

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 0642278792

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Australian slang unites the true blue and the dinky-di and separates the cheeky little possums from the happy little Vegemites. When we use slang, we’re connecting with the diggers in the villages of France ordering a vin blanc (‘plonk’) and the Indigenous Dharug-speakers of Sydney locating one another with a familiar cry (‘within cooee’). In this attractive and educational new pictorial guide, readers will be ably led through the world of Aussie slang by the great H.G. ‘battered sav’ Nelson.

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