Spoken
Australian English is thought to be highly colloquial, possibly more so than other spoken variants. Whether this idea is true or not, a substantial number of publications aimed at giving an overview of Australian English have been published.Many books about Australian lore have been published, beginning with
Karl Lentzner's Dictionary of the Slang-English of Australia and of Some Mixed Languages in 1892 . The first dictionary of based on historical principles that covered Australian English was
E. E. Morris's Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases and Usages (
1898).
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