The Australian National Dictionary is a historical dictionary of some 10,000 Australianisms. |
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There are Australianisms of language and tone, Australian touchstones of reference, that should be consciously preserved. |
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It was a strange collection of abbreviations and Australianisms which I had totally forgotten in the intervening years. |
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Personally it sounds like one of those great Australianisms, where a word has been borrowed from an act of parliament and ended up in the vernacular. |
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Consistently underlying his humour were the basic Australianisms which made his work so typical and traditional. |
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How these Anglicisms and Australianisms survived the tyrannically homogenizing copy editing of an American university press I will never understand. |
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