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... amistake to bypass the standard English plural for a word that was coined in English anyway. Among the citations in the Australian National Dictionary (1 988 ) there isonly one for platypi from the ... passed.past tense Most English verbs show whether the action they refer to happenedin the past, rather than the present or some indefinite time in the future. This is the point of difference ... percentage figures, but can simply appear at the top of the column. (Note that the figures in the column may not add up to exactly100 percent, and the total at the bottom should be left as 99.4% or 100.2%,...

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... communicatingthan in overwhelming their readers with long words. Whether they aim to impressor to cover their tracks, what they offer the reader is verbal fog: The departmental reaction to the municipal government ... as the main verb:They’re going to go to the races.Another sign that going to has made it as an auxiliary is the fact that the largerdictionaries list it as a single word: gonna/gunna. These ... and other contexts where the link with tradition wasimportant. The spelling griffon is used in modern English to refer to a breed of wire-hairedterrier developed in Belgium in the 188 0s. The...

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... normally take plural verbs. Seefurther under agreement section 4.totaled or totalled Whether to double or not to double the l is discussedat -l/-ll toto See in toto.tour de forceThis French phrase ... main title, and option (a) for the subtitle, as in: The Life and Times of the English Language: the marvellous history of the English tongue The use of option (a) for the subtitle also settles a ... Sentence positions. The all-important ﬁrst “slot” in the sentence is often referred to as the topic. The rest of the sentence is then known as the comment. In theseterms the ﬁrst sentence above...

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... areset together as one, usually because the second is strongly related to the ﬁrst. Seefor example: The news of the proposed devaluation got out; there was an immediate run on the stock exchange.In ... of the answer is that the ﬁrst was founded in 185 1, the second in the 189 0s, and during this half century the connotations of the name changed radically.Scotch was once the ordinary name for the ... describe and evaluate the noun to which they’re attached. They standright next to it, even if this delays the predicate of the main clause: The old computer that we bought at the markets has never...

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... The second is however recorded in Webster’s (1 986 ) and the Oxford Dictionary (1 989 ) as an alternative, and quite a few of the Oxfordcitations show it, whether they refer to the shoe, or to the ... about them for readers in other parts of the English- speaking world would do well to use immigrant rather than migrant, to ensure being properly understood.mileage or milage The rstofthese spellings ... provider of the mortgage if the ownerrepays the loan on time, and “dead” to the owner if he cannot. The mortgagorexecutes the “dead pledge” one way or the other.mortise or mortice The ﬁrst spelling...

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... italicisedeverywhere in the English- speaking world. In the past, editors were enjoined to put the v. separating the names in roman, but both the Australian GovernmentStyle Manual and the Chicago Manual put their ... the sixteenth century on, centuries before the ﬁrst reference to the jaw’s harp in Grove’sDictionary. The Jewish element is built into the English name for the instrumentas well as one of the ... international English The idea of “international English has a lot of appeal to publishers and others who seek to market English language products to the worldat large. It appeals also to teachers...

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... “and the rest” or “and the others”,implying a known set of items which might be used to complete the list precedingit. It relieves the writer of the need to list them, and calls on the reader to ... by about 4:1. The Australian Oxford (2004)291ellipsisa) They took glasses from the bar and [they took] knives and forks from the tables.b) They said [that] no-one was there.c) The woman [that/whom] ... (counting in the full stop) for an omission betweensentences—creates many complexities. The spacing for the four dots is uneven,with the full stop set close to the ﬁnal word, and the other three...

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... have had their day. The Romans locatedhistorical events in relation to the founding of their city in 753 BC. They gaveyears with the sufﬁx AUC, which to them meant ab urbe condita “from the city’sfounding”, ... including:here/there hence/thence now/then thusIn modern English the pairs of demonstratives (i.e. this/that, these/those) express the notion of being either closer to, or further from the writer/speaker. ... according to Webster’s English Usage (1 989 ) it’s still the less common useof the two. This is borne out in the Australian ACE corpus, where non-epistolaryinstances of correspond with were in the...

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... parenthesis, the point to check is whether the parenthesis forms partor all of the sentence. If it is the whole sentence, the full stop goes inside; if the parenthesis is only the last part of the ... costume when they ventureinto the surf. (Others less formal would call it their “swimmers”, “bathers”, “togs”or “cozzie”.) In the US meanwhile, bathe refers to swimming as well as taking a 85 canceled ... in the US—and the name of the building whichhouses the US Congress—is the Capitol (with an upper case initial). It was the name of the temple of Jupiter in ancient Rome. The same name capitol...

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... belong to this group. The group of absolute adjectives is in fact very11Preface to The Cambridge Guide to Australian English Usage Since the ﬁrst publication of The Cambridge Australian English ... the Australian National Dictionary (1 988 ) has citations for the singular form going backto the ﬁrsthalf of the nineteenth century, and it has always been part of Australian English. In the Australian ... boldfaced to draw attention to strategic points. Words related to the headword(s) or derived from them are setin italics, as are all examples.xv The Cambridge Guide to Australian English Usage PAM...

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