The Australian Oxford Dictionary

Dr Bruce Moore, at the Australian National Dictionary Centre, has edited Oxford's most important dictionary since the Australian National Dictionary. Drawing on Oxford's unrivalled databases in International English and Australian English, if offers Australian readers a timely and up-to-dateguide to language and usage as well as a full range of encyclopedic material."The Australian Oxford Dictionary is a major new dictionary for all Australians - students, readers, and writers." "The new dictionary draws on the databases of Australian English at the Australian National Dictionary Centre - including its fast-growing national corpus of current usage and its research into Australian English - and on those of the Oxford English Dictionary. It also draws on the latest research into International English." "In addition to more than 100,000 words, compounds, idioms, and derivatives, it contains more than 12,500 encyclopedic entries. These entries cover people, places, languages, history, science, the arts, and institutions, with special attention to Australian culture and history, including Aboriginal history. Aware that modern users of dictionaries demand guidance on matters of controversial or disputed usage, Dr Moore has included more than 500 usage notes." "He includes a full range of neologisms, especially the protean language of younger Australians and of computing and electronic communication."--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved