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Author Moore, Bruce, 1947-

Title Gold! Gold! Gold! : a dictionary of the nineteenth-century Australian gold rushes / by Bruce Moore
Published South Melbourne ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000

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 MELB  994.03103 Moo/Ggg  AVAILABLE
Description xvi, 190 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Summary Moore's underlying argument is that the gold rushes played a significant role in the development of Australian English
Notes Cover sub-title: The language of the nineteenth century Australian gold rushes
Includes 4 plates by S.T. Gill, 1 by Samuel Sydney. Front cover - Edwin Stocqueler 'Australian gold diggings (c. 1855)'
Bibliography Bibliography: page xiv-xv
Subject Australianisms -- Dictionaries.
English language -- Australia -- Dictionaries.
English language -- Australia -- Terms and phrases -- History.
Gold mines and mining -- Australia -- History -- Dictionaries.
Gold mines and mining -- Australia -- History -- 1851-1891 - -- Dictionaries
Gold mines and mining -- Australia -- History -- 1851-1891 -- Dictionaries
Gold mines and mining -- Australia -- History -- 19th century -- Dictionaries.
SUBJECT Australia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79021326 -- Gold discoveries http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00005926 -- Dictionaries. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001671
Australia -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009591 -- 1851-1891 -- Dictionaries
Genre/Form Dictionaries.
Author Gill, Samuel Thomas, 1818-1880.
Stocqueler, Edwin, 1829-188-?
Australian National Dictionary Centre.
LC no. 00341325
ISBN 0195508386
Other Titles Gold! Gold! Gold! : the language of the nineteenth-century Australian gold rushes
Gold! Gold! Gold!: the language of the nineteenth century Australian gold rushes