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Author:   Ramson
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Australia
Imprint:   OUP Australia and New Zealand
Dimensions:   Width: 21.30cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.00cm
Weight:   0.356kg
ISBN:  

9780195515770

ISBN 10:   0195515773
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   01 July 2002
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Notes on dates, quotations, and references Introduction The Great Tradition: James Murray and the OED Just Another Oxford Dictionary: The Making of the AND (1) Dreams, Delights, and Downright Drudgery: The Making of the AND (2) Of Kiwis and Kangaroos: Lessons from Loanwords Waste Land to Wonderland: The Land and Its Use Good Man de Queen: Loanwords from Aboriginal Languages Two Vignettes from the Past: For the Term of a Natural Life and the Golden Handshake Walkabout: Swagmen or Squatters Eureka: The Hour of the White, Anglo-Saxon, Australian Male One Nation, One Language, One World Word Index General Index

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"""Lexical Images is a very personal story of a dictionary. ... [the reader will] be entertained by the excellence of style, the pace the author was trying to create as the Australian National Dictionary was moving forward.""--Linguist List 16.1498"

Lexical Images is a very personal story of a dictionary. ... [the reader will] be entertained by the excellence of style, the pace the author was trying to create as the Australian National Dictionary was moving forward. --Linguist List 16.1498

Lexical Images is a very personal story of a dictionary. ... [the reader will] be entertained by the excellence of style, the pace the author was trying to create as the Australian National Dictionary was moving forward. --Linguist List 16.1498<br>

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W. S. Ramson, Lexicographer, taught English at the Australian National University (ANU) from 1961. He published Australian English: An Historical Study of the Vocabulary 1788-1898 in 1966. Ramson was the founding editor of the Macquarie Dictionary(1981) and from the late 1970s he consulted on Australian English with the Oxford English Dictionary project.

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