The Australian Concise Oxford Dictionary provides an up-to-date, accurate and authoritative description of Australian and International English that is unrivalled by other concise dictionaries. This fully updated and revised fourth edition has been over five years in the making, and includes many new Australian words and phrases ranging from Easter bilby and mates rates to aspirational voter and blockie. This major Australian dictionary draws its ultimate authority from the vast resources of the Oxford English Dictionary and its continually updated database, with Australian material drawn from The Australian National Dictionary and the database of Australian English maintained by the Australian National Dictionary Centre in Canberra.
- Over 99,000 headwords
- Usage panels
- Appendices include countries of the world, the Commonwealth, weights, measures and units, the chemical elements, proofreading marks, key locations of Australian Aboriginal languages
- Detailed word origins given for most entries, with special attention paid to borrowings from Australian Aboriginal languages
- Pronunciation given for most headwords, using the International Phonetic Alphabet (guide to phonetic symbols runs across the bottom of each page)
Dr Bruce Moore has been director of the Australian National Dictionary Centre at the Australian National University since 1994. In addition to editing Oxford University Press' Australian Dictionaries, Bruce Moore has written a lexical monograph, Gold! Gold! Gold!, and is a regular guest on radio programs around the country.
