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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 ... for the noun, by 11 :3 in the singular and 13 3 :18 in the plural.Among Aborigines themselves the issue is debated. Some, according to the Aboriginal Research Centre at Monash University, reject the ... boldfaced to draw attention to strategic points. Words related to the headword(s) or derived from them are setin italics, as are all examples.xv The Cambridge Guide to Australian English Usage PAM...

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... sentences. 1 Sentence positions. The all-important ﬁrst “slot” in the sentence is often referred to as the topic. The rest of the sentence is then known as the comment. In theseterms the ﬁrst ... united by treaty in 15 36, and Scotland joined in 17 07 to form Great Britain. The so-called “Act of Union” brought the whole ofIreland into the “United Kingdom” in 18 01, but in 19 21 the south of Ireland ... normally take plural verbs. Seefurther under agreement section 4.totaled or totalled Whether to double or not to double the l is discussedat -l/-ll toto See in toto.tour de forceThis French phrase...

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... of the answer is that the ﬁrst was founded in 18 51, the second in the 18 90s, and during this half century the connotations of the name changed radically.Scotch was once the ordinary name for the ... areset together as one, usually because the second is strongly related to the ﬁrst. Seefor 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 isin fact one of the cohesive devices of standard English. (See further under...

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... can simply appear at the top of the column. (Note that the ﬁgures in the column may not add up to exactly 10 0 percent, and the total at the bottom should be left as 99.4% or 10 0.2%, notrounded ... amistake to bypass the standard English plural for a word that was coined in English anyway. Among the citations in the Australian National Dictionary (19 88) there isonly one for platypi from the ... passed.past tense Most English verbs show whether the action they refer to happenedin the past, rather than the present or some indeﬁnite time in the future. This is the point of difference...

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... use in the US in the 30s was to refer to new and moremovable/portable instruments, such as the minipiano and the minicam(era). Theywere followed by the minicar (19 45) and the miniprinter (19 50). ... The second is however recorded in Webster’s (19 86) and the Oxford Dictionary (19 89) as an alternative, and quite a few of the Oxfordcitations show it, whether they refer to the shoe, or to the ... 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 milage The rstofthese spellings...

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... the sixteenth century on, centuries before the ﬁrst reference to the jaw’s harp in Grove’sDictionary. The Jewish element is built into the English name for the instrumentas well as one of the ... use since the sixteenthcentury, and was the spelling enshrined in the Authorised Version of the Bible (16 11) . This early use helps to explain why it is the standard spelling in American English. ... 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 worldat large. It appeals also to teachers...

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... communicatingthan in overwhelming their readers with long words. Whether they aim to impressor to cover their tracks, what they offer the reader is verbal fog: The departmental reaction to the municipal government ... and the others using only an initial cap. Printers, desktop publishers and others able to vary the type size can use that to distinguish the headings, e.g. 12 point forheadings and the regular 10 ... Western and an Eastern sector, and to mark the boundary between them, the Berlin Wall was erected in 19 61. The breaching of the Berlin Wall in November 19 89 marked the beginning of a new era,...

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... by about 4 :1. The Australian Oxford (2004)2 91 ellipsisa) 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 precedingit. It relieves the writer of the need to list them, and calls on the reader to ... (counting in the full stop) for an omission betweensentences—creates many complexities. The spacing for the four dots is uneven,with the full stop set close to the ﬁnal word, and the other three...

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... takes to show the change. Theytherefore recommend 19 01 5, 19 55–8 and so on, but make an exception of numbersbetween 10 and 19 , as in references to the 19 14 18 War. The exception seems to takeaccount ... have had their day. The Romans locatedhistorical events in relation to the founding of their city in 753 BC. They gaveyears with the sufﬁx AUC, which to them meant ab urbe condita “from the city’sfounding”, ... including:here/there hence/thence now/then thusIn modern English the pairs of demonstratives (i.e. this/that, these/those) express the notion of being either closer to, or further from the writer/speaker....

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... parenthesis, the point to check is whether the parenthesis forms partor 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 ... for others to know how to respond, and speakers can use it thus to disarm the audience on anissue. 11 1canvas or canvassof the rod is the semantic basis of canon. Other derivatives of the same ... in the US—and the name of the building whichhouses the US Congress—is the Capitol (with an upper case initial). It was the name of the temple of Jupiter in ancient Rome. The same name capitol...

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