Author: Eagleson, Robert D.
Title: Australianisms in Early Migrant Handbooks, 1827 - 1830 [Occasional Paper].
Description: Sydney Australian Language Research Centre, University of Sydney, 1965. Paperback trade, very good condition, card cover (spine toned), stapled pamphlet, pages faintly toned, minor edgewear. 16 pp. Lists all uniquely Australian words found in a search of 10 migrant handbooks, as listed in Ferguson's Bibliography, for the period up to 1830. Includes the full bibliographic citation and explanation of meaning. Includes familiar words (eg, coo-ee, damper) and the less familiar (eg, settler's clock, for the noise of the "laughing jackass" [kookaburra]).

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