The English language in Australia and New Zealand

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Original publication date: 1966
People/Characters: Sidney J. Baker; Samuel Butler; Captain James Cook, RN, FRS; A. G. Mitchell
Important places: Australia; Canterbury, New Zealand
First words: Foreword
There are at least two good reasons for studying the forms of English used in Australia and New Zealand.
Chapter 1
English Transported
A geography prescriptive rather than descriptive once denied the possibility of an antipodes, for, said Cosmas, a sixth-century monk, 'let each of you who has sound vision and the po... (show all)wer of reasoning justly turn the earth round whatever way he pleases, and let him say whether the antipodes can all be standing upright in the same sense of the expression'.

Genre: Nonfiction
DDC/MDS: 427.994 — Language English & Old English languages Historical and geographic variations, modern nongeographic variations of English Geographic variations Geographic variations in Australasia, Pacific Ocean islands, Atlantic Ocean islands, Arctic islands, Antarctica, extraterrestrial worlds Geographic variations in Australia
LCC: PE3601 .T8 — Language and Literature English language English Dialects. Provincialisms, etc.