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Description:Since it was first published in 1981, "The Macquarie Dictionary" has become firmly established as the voice of Australian English. Many smaller and specialized dictionaries, as well as thesauruses and other reference works have contributed to Macquarie's reputation as Australia's leading language reference publisher. The flagship of the range of publications produced by Macquarie remains the complete version of the dictionary, the most comprehensive account of Australian English ever produced. The Macquarie has been constantly evolving over the past two decades. With the second edition, published in 1991, The Macquarie became encyclopedic, including entries on people and places of Australia and the rest of the world. The third edition in 1997 made use of Macquarie's corpus of Australian English (Ozcorp), with thousands of illustrative sentences being included from works of Australian literature. Now, the fourth edition of this major work has emerged, with even more improvements and new features.Over 112,000 headwords covering English as it is used in Australia, from the colourfully colloquial to the highly technical - etymologies for some of the more interesting phrases in English. Where does 'on his Pat Malone' come from? And what about 'the life of Riley'? - hundreds of new words and senses. Words are constantly coming into use in Australian English, from many different sources. They are picked up through our extensive reading program and our consultant specialists - illustrative material from Ozcorp, Macquarie's database of Australian writing, which is being increased and updated - Macquarie and the ABC have co-operated in a project called Australian Word Map which has called on the help of Australians all over the country to identify regionalisms. Selected regionalisms have then been included in the dictionaryWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Macquarie Dictionary. To get started finding The Macquarie Dictionary, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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Release: 2005

ISBN: 1876429143

Description: Since it was first published in 1981, "The Macquarie Dictionary" has become firmly established as the voice of Australian English. Many smaller and specialized dictionaries, as well as thesauruses and other reference works have contributed to Macquarie's reputation as Australia's leading language reference publisher. The flagship of the range of publications produced by Macquarie remains the complete version of the dictionary, the most comprehensive account of Australian English ever produced. The Macquarie has been constantly evolving over the past two decades. With the second edition, published in 1991, The Macquarie became encyclopedic, including entries on people and places of Australia and the rest of the world. The third edition in 1997 made use of Macquarie's corpus of Australian English (Ozcorp), with thousands of illustrative sentences being included from works of Australian literature. Now, the fourth edition of this major work has emerged, with even more improvements and new features.Over 112,000 headwords covering English as it is used in Australia, from the colourfully colloquial to the highly technical - etymologies for some of the more interesting phrases in English. Where does 'on his Pat Malone' come from? And what about 'the life of Riley'? - hundreds of new words and senses. Words are constantly coming into use in Australian English, from many different sources. They are picked up through our extensive reading program and our consultant specialists - illustrative material from Ozcorp, Macquarie's database of Australian writing, which is being increased and updated - Macquarie and the ABC have co-operated in a project called Australian Word Map which has called on the help of Australians all over the country to identify regionalisms. Selected regionalisms have then been included in the dictionaryWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Macquarie Dictionary. To get started finding The Macquarie Dictionary, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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