Colloquialisms & slang
Articles
- A Critical Review of Writings on The Vocabulary of Australian English
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…
1 December 1963 - ‘Bushranger’ and ‘Croppy’ : A Footnote to Convict Jargon and Euphemism
In a recent study of convict jargon in this journal emphasis is placed on the use of convict terms outside convict circles, particularly in the…
1 June 1966 - Early Evidence for ‘Bushranger’ and ‘Croppy’
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…
1 December 1966 - ‘A dozen rich and luscious phrases’: Speech as characterisation of the working-class women in Ruth Park’s The Harp in the South
As Delie Stock clashes with Father Cooley over the St Brandan’s school picnic in Ruth Park’s debut novel The Harp in the South (1948), she…
3 October 2024