Stunned Mullets and Two-pot Screamers: A dictionary of Australian colloquialisms, Fifth Edition
Oxford University Press, $45 pb, 412 pp
A dillybag of goodies
Gerry Wilkes has done the state a great deal of service, and he should get full credit once again, as the eclipsed terrain of Australian literature emerges into the sunlight: which it seems to be doing right now, to judge from some recent movements in publishing. So let’s keep abreast of our language, all the while: that is to say, of our dominant or mainstream language, amid whatever others we have to offer.
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Stunned Mullets and Two-pot Screamers: A dictionary of Australian colloquialisms, Fifth Edition
by G.A. Wilkes
Oxford University Press, $45 pb, 412 pp
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