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MACQUARIE AUSTRALIAN SLANG DICTIONARY
MACQUARIE LIBRARY / MACQUARIE AUSTRALIAN SLANG DICTIONARY

MACQUARIE LIBRARY

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Format: Book - Large Paperback
Released: Mon 1 Nov 2004
Catalogue Number: 9781876429522

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Are you . . . Flustered by the FAQs of File-o-philes? Bemused by brainiacs? Mystified by the moshing of metalheads? Dumbfounded by D'oh? Then the "Macquarie Australian Slang Dictionary" will help you unlock the language of Australia. 'In the 70s we embraced "Strine", in the 80s we pretended we had outgrown it, in the 90s the self-appointed language police tried to shackle it, but slang is here to stay,' says James Lambert, general editor of the "Macquarie Australian Slang Dictionary". 'Slang is not a dirty word, rather it is a reflection of our culture - where it has been and where it is going. The Homeric D'oh can sit quite happily alongside such old-time classics as drongo and dumbcluck.' Slang has never had it so good - the "Macquarie Australian Slang Dictionary", as the most up-to-date record of the 'poetry of the masses' in Australia is a celebration of this.

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