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The Oxford dictionary of New Zealandisms / Tony Deverson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Deverson, Tony, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--New Zealand--Dictionaries.
- English language.
- English language--Variation--New Zealand--Dictionaries.
- English language--Provincialisms--New Zealand--Dictionaries.
- English language--New Zealand--Terms and phrases--Dictionaries.
- Genre:
- Dictionaries.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 322 pages)
- Other Title:
- Dictionary of New Zealandisms
- New Zealandisms
- Place of Publication:
- South Melbourne, Vic. : Oxford University Press, 2010.
- Summary:
- A landmark contribution to New Zealand English, 'The Oxford Dictionary of New Zealandisms' collects distinctive New Zealand words and usages, drawn from a wide variety of domains and areas of life. Many are shown in actual use by illustrative quotations from written publications. The dictionary's contents encompass the full range of New Zealandisms, including items both current and disused, contemporary and historical in reference, colloquial and non-colloquial in style, and borrowed and internally sourced in origin.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780195597189
- 0195597184
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