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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 ... as the main verb:
They’re going to go to the races.
Another sign that going to has made it as an auxiliary is the fact that the larger
dictionaries l...
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... passed.
past tense Most English verbs show whether the action they refer to happened
in the past, rather than the present or some indefinite time in the future. This is the
point of difference ... 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 (1988) there is
onl...
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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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... 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 ... taxi, and the visitors did the same.
Note that there are no overtones of commercialese or legalese in such usage; same is
in fact one of the cohesive devices of standard...
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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 (19 45) and the miniprinter (1 950 ). ... about them for readers in other parts of the
English- speaking world would do well to use immigrant rather than migrant, to
ensure being properly understood.
mileage or mil...
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... italicised
everywhere in the English- speaking world. In the past, editors were enjoined to
put the v. separating the names in roman, but both the Australian Government
Style Manual and the Chicago Manual put their ... 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 Englis...
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... “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 list them, and calls on the reader to ... 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 w...
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... have had their day. The Romans located
historical events in relation to the founding of their city in 753 BC. They gave
years with the suffix AUC, which to them meant ab urbe condita “from the city’s
founding”, ... takes to show the change. They
therefore recommend 1901 5, 1 955 –8 and so on, but make an exception of numbers
between 10 and 19, as in references to the 1914–1...
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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 ... costume when they venture
into the surf. (Others less formal would call it their “swimmers”, “bathers”, “togs”
or “cozzie”.) In the US meanwhile, bathe refers to swimmin...
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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.
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The Cam...
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