The early use of bushranger in Australia has occasioned debate. The word is obviously closely linked with the verb, to range, and this note…
Interest shown by historians and other scholars in the recording of the Australian vocabulary is welcome, particularly if they are able to indicate sources which…
Ramson examines and assesses a range of colonial non-fiction sources for their use and representation of Australian English vocabulary.
It is more than sixty years since Morris's Austral English was published, yet this, deficient in many respects and dated as it is, remains the…