The Australian National Dictionary is a historical dictionary of some 10,000 Australianisms. |
There are Australianisms of language and tone, Australian touchstones of reference, that should be consciously preserved. |
It was a strange collection of abbreviations and Australianisms which I had totally forgotten in the intervening years. |
Personally it sounds like one of those great Australianisms, where a word has been borrowed from an act of parliament and ended up in the vernacular. |
Consistently underlying his humour were the basic Australianisms which made his work so typical and traditional. |
How these Anglicisms and Australianisms survived the tyrannically homogenizing copy editing of an American university press I will never understand. |