The Cambridge Guide to Australian English Usage, Pam Peters, 2007

The Cambridge Guide to Australian English Usage, Pam Peters, 2007.
 
   Since the first publication of The Cambridge Australian English Style Guide, electronic communication has become almost universal, used in parallel to or instead of print. Wordprocessors are now the primary means for drafting documents, whether they are to appear in hard copy (i.e. on paper) or to be transmitted over the internet. The new medium impacts on numerous aspects of language and style which are reflected in updated entries in this new edition.




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American English This variety of English now has the largest body of speakers in the world. It originated with pockets of English settlers on the Atlantic seaboard of North America: a small group from the West country who took land in Virginia in 1607, and the better known “Pilgrim Fathers”, many of them from East Anglia, who settled in New England in 1620. Those English communities evolved into the “Thirteen Colonies”, though it was a narrow coastal settlement by comparison with the vast areas to the north, west and south which were then under French and Spanish control. But within 200 years, the English-speaking immigrants had acquired a mandate for the whole continent, and English was its official language.

The American Declaration of Independence from Britain in 1776 meant much more than political separation. Pressure for linguistic independence was a concomitant, and its outstanding spokesman, Noah Webster, issued a series of publications proposing language reform from 1783 on. The movement also found expression in the phrase “the American language”, first recorded in the US Congress in 1802. In his first dictionary, the Compendious Dictionary of the English Language (1806), Webster urged Americans to detach themselves from English literary models. The dictionary enshrined many of the spellings by which American English is now distinguished from British English, such as color, fiber and defense. (See further under -or, -re and -ce/-se.) Webster’s later and much larger American Dictionary of the English Language (1828) included many Americanisms, words borrowed from Indian languages, e.g. caribou, moccasin, tomahawk, wigwam, and ones created in North America out of standard English elements, land office, log house, congressional, scalp (verb).

Contents.
Preface to The Cambridge Guide to Australian English Usage page.
Preface to The Cambridge Australian English Style Guide.
Foreword to The Cambridge Australian English Style Guide.
Overview of contents and how to access them.
A to Z entries.
Appendix I International Phonetic Alphabet Symbols for Australian English Sounds.
Appendix II Perpetual Calendar 1900–2020.
Appendix III Geological Eras.
Appendix IV International System of Units (SI Units).
Appendix V Interconversion Tables for Metric and Imperial Measures.
Appendix VI Selected Proofreading Marks.
Appendix VII Formats for Letters.
Appendix VIII Layout for Envelopes.
Appendix IX Formats for Email.
Appendix X Time Line for the English Language and Australian English.
References.



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