Literary Studies

The Australian National Dictionary: Second Edition edited by Bruce Moore

Item: The Australian National Dictionary
Author: Kate Burridge

Reviewed by Kate Burridge •

October 2016, no. 385

The Australian National Dictionary: Second Edition

edited by Bruce Moore

Oxford University Press, $175 hb, 2 vols, 9780195550269

Literary Studies

The Australian National Dictionary: Second Edition edited by Bruce Moore

Reviewed by Kate Burridge •

October 2016, no. 385

The appearance of a new dictionary is always exciting, and the publication of the second edition of the Australian National Dictionary is certainly cause for celebration. It is an impressive collection of some 16,000 Australian English expressions contained within two beautifully bound volumes of scholarly lexicography. It should certainly allay any fears about the continued place of 'tree-dictionaries' in this all-digital-all-the-time age of e-publications.

Kate Burridge

Kate Burridge is Professor of Linguistics at Monash University. She is the author of many books, a regular guest on ABC radio and recently presented a TED talk in Sydney on Euphemisms in English.

The Australian National Dictionary: Second Edition

edited by Bruce Moore

Oxford University Press, $175 hb, 2 vols, 9780195550269

Kate Burridge

Kate Burridge is Professor of Linguistics at Monash University. She is the author of many books, a regular guest on ABC radio and recently presented a TED talk in Sydney on Euphemisms in English.