Digger Dialects - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Digger Dialects write by Walter Hubert Downing. This book was released on 1919. Digger Dialects available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
W.H. Downing's Digger Dialects
W.H. Downing's Digger Dialects - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook W.H. Downing's Digger Dialects write by Walter Hubert Downing. This book was released on 1990. W.H. Downing's Digger Dialects available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Digger Dialects is a unique record of one of Australian English's most creative and crowded hours. The words and phrases used by Australian personnel in World War I were noted in 1919 by W.H.Downing and are presented here with editorial comments and additions. Words which have new meanings or wider applications are frozen as they were in 1919; words which meant something at that time mean little now and need to be explained. The editors of this volume describe how the phrase going into cold storage meant to be killed in the winter of 1916; how kangaroo feathers was a jocular name for the emu plumes worn by members of the Australian Light Horse Brigade. The book is enhanced by 100 illustrations, drawn from field or troopship magazines, which aim to provide something of the spirit and flavour of the times.
A History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries
A History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries write by Julie Coleman. This book was released on 2008-10-23. A History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book continues Julie Coleman's acclaimed history of dictionaries of English slang and cant. It describes the increasingly systematic and scholarly way in which such terms were recorded and classified in the UK, the USA, Australia, and elsewhere, and the huge growth in the publication of and public appetite for dictionaries, glossaries, and guides to the distinctive vocabularies of different social groups, classes, districts, regions, and nations. Dr Coleman describes the origins of words and phrases and explores their history. By copious example she shows how they cast light on everyday life across the globe - from settlers in Canada and Australia and cockneys in London to gang-members in New York and soldiers fighting in the Boer and First World Wars - as well as on the operations of the narcotics trade and the entertainment business and the lives of those attending American colleges and British public schools. The slang lexicographers were a colourful bunch. Those featured in this book include spiritualists, aristocrats, socialists, journalists, psychiatrists, school-boys, criminals, hoboes, police officers, and a serial bigamist. One provided the inspiration for Robert Lewis Stevenson's Long John Silver. Another was allegedly killed by a pork pie. Julie Coleman's account will interest historians of language, crime, poverty, sexuality, and the criminal underworld.
The Story of Australian English
The Story of Australian English - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Story of Australian English write by Kel Richards. This book was released on 2015-03-01. The Story of Australian English available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The English language arrived in Australia with the first motley bunch of European settlers on 26 January 1788. Today there is clearly a distinctive Australian regional dialect with its own place among the global family of ‘Englishes’. How did this come about? Where did the distinctive pattern, accent, and verbal inventions that make up Aussie English come from? A lively narrative, this book tells the story of the birth, rise and triumphant progress of the colourful dingo lingo that we know today as Aussie English.
The Athenaeum
The Athenaeum - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Athenaeum write by . This book was released on 1920. The Athenaeum available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
