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Usage Guides and Usage Trends in Australian and British English

Pages 581-598 | Accepted 18 Feb 2014, Published online: 14 Aug 2014

Dictionaries, Style Manuals, Usage Guides, Grammars

  • Australian Government Style Manual 1st ed. 1966; 2nd ed. 1972; 3rd ed. 1978; 4th ed. 1988 Canberra, Australian Government Publishing Service.
  • Australian Government Style Manual 5th ed. 1995 Canberra, AUSINFO, Department of Finance and Administration.
  • Australian Government Style Manual 6th ed. 2002 Brisbane, John Wiley.
  • Australian Oxford Dictionary 1st ed. 1999; 2nd ed. 2004 Melbourne, Oxford University Press.
  • Australian National Dictionary 1988 Melbourne: Oxford University Press.
  • Burchfield R 1996 Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Chicago Manual of Style 15th edition 2003 Chicago: Chicago University Press.
  • Fowler H 1926 A Dictionary of Modern English Usage Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  • Gowers E 1965 Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  • Hudson N 1993 Modern Australian Usage Melbourne: Oxford University Press.
  • Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English 1999 London: Longman.
  • Macquarie Dictionary 5th edition 2009 Sydney: Macquarie Library Pty Ltd.
  • Murray-Smith S 1st ed. 1987 Right Words Melbourne: Viking.
  • Murray-Smith S 2nd ed. 1989 Right Words Melbourne: Viking.
  • New Hart's Rules for Compositors and Readers at the University Press 2005 Oxford University Press.
  • Oxford English Dictionary (=New English Dictionary) 1884–1928; Supplement 1933; 2nd edition 1989.
  • Peters P 1995 Cambridge Australian English Style Guide 2nd edition 2007 retitled Cambridge Guide to Australian English Usage Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Webster N 1828 An American Dictionary of the English Language New York: S. Converse.
  • Webster's Dictionary of English Usage 1989 Springfield, MA: Merriam-Webster.
  • Webster's Third New International Dictionary 1961 Springfield, MA: Merriam-Webster.

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