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Dictionary of Austral English, by Edward Morris
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Title: A Dictionary of Austral English
Author: Edward Morris
Release Date: February 3, 2009 [EBook 27977]
Language: English
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Produced by Geoffrey Cowling
AUSTRAL ENGLISH
A DICTIONARY OF AUSTRALASIAN WORDS, PHRASES AND USAGES
with those Aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia
by Edward E. Morris M.A., Oxon.
Professor of English, French and German Languages and Literatures in the University of Melbourne.
1898
INTRODUCTION
CONTENTS
I. ORIGIN OF THE WORK
First undertaken to help O.E.D.
The Standard Dictionary
II. TITLE AND SCOPE OF THE BOOK
Not a Slang Dictionary
III. SOURCES OF NEW WORDS:--
1. Altered English
2. Words quite new to the language:--
(a) Aboriginal Australian
(b) Maori
IV. THE LAW OF HOBSON-JOBSON
Is Austral English a corruption?
V. CLASSIFICATION OF WORDS
VI. QUOTATIONS. THEIR PURPOSE
VII. BOOKS USED AS AUTHORITIES
VIII.SCIENTIFIC WORDS
IX. ASSISTANCE RECEIVED
X. ABBREVIATIO