Vigilance or Tolerance? Younger Speakers’ Attitudes to Australian English UsageFootnote^*

* I gratefully acknowledge the 395 people who completed the survey and who recruited others to participate and thus allowed me to undertake this research. I wish to thank Professor Kate Burridge for her wisdom, support and guidance as my Honours supervisor at Monash University and Dr Julie Bradshaw and Dr Louisa Willoughby for their feedback in the preparation of this article. I gratefully acknowledge the receipt of a Monash University Jubilee Honours Scholarship and a Monash LCL Honours Summer Research Support Award. I also wish to thank the anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments in the preparation of this article, especially for their insight regarding style guides.

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