Words From The West
Maureen Brooks, Joan Ritchie
$65.95 AUD
- ISBN:
- 9780195536287
- Published:
- 27 Jun 1994
- Availability:
- Print on demand
Western Australia's history, climate, its comparatively large aboriginal population, its size and its concomitant isolation from other Australian centres of population, have all contributed to the words used uniquely or more frequently in that region. Words From the West contains some 750 dictionary entries of words found in Western Australian newspapers — words related to topics as diverse as drinking, sport, strains of wheat, and lupins, mirror the diversity and colour of WA life.
Edited by Maureen Brooks
Joan Ritchie , both researchers, Australian National Dictionary Centre
`The small book under review is a good illustration of what regional lexicography can achieve - compiled with traditional techniques of 'word-spotting' where a corpus analysis would have been too unweildy and not have promised better results.' English World-Wide