The Cambridge Guide to Australian English Usage phần 9 pps

... are set together as one, usually because the second is strongly related to the first. See for example: The news of the proposed devaluation got out; there was an immediate run on the stock exchange. In ... 49) , and in MCMXC (= 199 0). Romania, Rumania or Roumania The Romans gave their name to this easternmost province of their empire, hence the spelling Romania which is now...

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... normally take plural verbs. See further under agreement section 4. totaled or totalled Whether to double or not to double the l is discussed at -l/-ll toto See in toto. tour de force This French phrase ... main title, and option (a) for the subtitle, as in: The Life and Times of the English Language: the marvellous history of the English tongue The use of option (a) for...

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... but can simply appear at the top of the column. (Note that the figures in the column may not add up to exactly 100 percent, and the total at the bottom should be left as 99 .4% or 100.2%, not rounded ... a mistake to bypass the standard English plural for a word that was coined in English anyway. Among the citations in the Australian National Dictionary ( 198 8) th...

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... in the US in the 30s was to refer to new and more movable/portable instruments, such as the minipiano and the minicam(era). They were followed by the minicar ( 194 5) and the miniprinter ( 195 0). ... the Oxford citations show it, whether they refer to the shoe, or to the plant or animal which also embody the name. The spelling with one c seems to come closer...

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... the sixteenth century on, centuries before the first reference to the jaw’s harp in Grove’s Dictionary. The Jewish element is built into the English name for the instrument as well as one of the ... international English The idea of “international English has a lot of appeal to publishers and others who seek to market English language products to the world at...

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... communicating than in overwhelming their readers with long words. Whether they aim to impress or to cover their tracks, what they offer the reader is verbal fog: The departmental reaction to the municipal government ... (Canadian English Usage ( 199 7)). So writers who wish to target the older distinction will need to use alternatives such as “epicure” and “glutton” for...

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... by about 4:1. The Australian Oxford (2004) 291 ellipsis a) They took glasses from the bar and [they took] knives and forks from the tables. b) They said [that] no-one was there. c) The woman [that/whom] ... “and the rest” or “and the others”, implying a known set of items which might be used to complete the list preceding it. It relieves the writer of the need to lis...

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... takes to show the change. They therefore recommend 190 1–5, 195 5–8 and so on, but make an exception of numbers between 10 and 19, as in references to the 191 4–18 War. The exception seems to take account ... according to Webster’s English Usage ( 198 9) it’s still the less common use of the two. This is borne out in the Australian ACE corpus, where non-epistolary in...

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... parenthesis, the point to check is whether the parenthesis forms part or all of the sentence. If it is the whole sentence, the full stop goes inside; if the parenthesis is only the last part of the ... Within the United Nations, the Burmese nation is represented as Myanmar, the name decreed in 198 8 9 by the Law and Order Restoration Council of the military govern...

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... belong to this group. The group of absolute adjectives is in fact very 11 Preface to The Cambridge Guide to Australian English Usage Since the first publication of The Cambridge Australian English ... boldfaced to draw attention to strategic points. Words related to the headword(s) or derived from them are set in italics, as are all examples. xv The Cam...

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