The aitch factor : adventures in Australian English / Susan Butler
- Bib ID:
- 6535111
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Butler, Susan, 1948-, author
- Description:
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- Sydney, New South Wales : Pan Macmillan Australia, 2014
- ©2014
- xv, 284 pages ; 21 cm
- ISBN:
- 9781742612614 (hardback)
- Summary:
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For thirty years, Macquarie Dictionary editor Susan Butler has been in the front row watching Australians alternatively defend, reject, embrace and argue heatedly about every aspect of language usage. She has witnessed crusades against 'youse', ducked the missiles over the phrase 'man boobs', pondered the changing pronunciation of 'Beijing', recorded - controversially - the evolving meaning of 'misogyny' and wondered why on earth we still cling to the grammarian's flourish known as the apostrophe.
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- Adventures in Australian English
- Haitch factor
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