Author: Brooks, Maureen; Ritchie, Joan; Arthur, Jay (illustrator); Brooks, Robert (illustrator).
Title: Words from the West: A Glossary of Western Australian Terms.
Description: Melbourne Oxford University Press (OUP), 1994. Paperback small trade, very good condition, black & white drawings, maps, light foxing top title page & last page, minor edgewear. 222 pp. Maureen Brooks and Joan Ritchie have compiled 750 dictionary entries of words found in Western Australian newspapers. The words are defined and the sentences in which they were used are treated as part of the entry, along with the date and place of occurrence. The compilers work at the Australian National Dictionary Centre, and using the proven methods of historical lexicography, have produced this fascinating reference book. It is a first attempt to record the words used in, and perhaps peculiar to, a given Australian regional community. Inside the front cover, there is a key to approximate locations of Western Australian languages mentioned in this glossary. Inside the rear cover there is a key to approximate locations of the main towns mentioned in this glossary. ISBN: 0195536282

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