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AUSTRALIAN STYLE

A NATIONAL BULLETIN ON ISSUES IN
AUSTRALIAN STYLE AND ENGLISH IN AUSTRALIA

Australian Style Archive    

Archives

The following is a list of previous editions of Australian Style, with a selective list of contents. You can view a PDF of the entire newsletter by clicking on the volume number. Hard copies of most back issues are also available. Please contact adam.smith@mq.edu.au if you would like to obtain copies of these.

Volume 17.1, October 2010

Volume 16.2, December 2009
 
Volume 16.1, April 2009

Volume 15.2, December 2007 [PDF - 1353kb]

  • Words for describing Australian Aboriginal Song – Michael Walsh
  • When did you last spend a penny? – Julia Miller
  • Feedback 30, Verbal Variants
Volume 15.1, August 2007 [PDF - 347kb]

  • Tasmanian words – Bruce Moore
  • Language columns and columnists – Adam Smith
  • Feedback 29, A Grammatical Miscellany
Volume 14.2, December 2006 [PDF - 401kb]

  • Sea Words: A Historical Study from New Zealand – Cherie Connor
  • Gunzel – Adam Smith
  • Feedback 28, Verbal Variants
Volume 14.1, June 2006 [PDF - 335kb]

  • Translating Guidebooks - Twitchers, Gricers & “Doing Doughnuts” – Tony Wheeler
  • The Origin of "Furphy" – Roger Frankenberg
  • Feedback 27, Putting it in the Negative
Volume 13.2, December 2005 [PDF - 545kb]

  • Extreme Lexicography – Bernadette Hince
  • Turning VB into Kava – Kim Lockwood
  • Feedback 26, In Comparison
Volume 13.1, June 2005 [PDF - 262kb]

  • Figuring out numbers – Robert Eagleson
  • Going...Going...Gone – Ruth Wajnryb
  • Feedback 25, Levels of Agreement
Volume 12.2, December 2004 [PDF - 332kb]

  • Australian hypocoristics: putting the -ie into Aussie – Roland Sussex
  • Feedback 24, Grammatical conundrums
Volume 12.1, June 2004 [PDF - 308kb]

  • Are crustaceans shellfish? A whiff of scandal in English lexicography – Andrew Pawley
  • Writing Money – Pat Naughtin
  • Feedback 23, Verbal Options (2)
Volume 11.2, December 2003 [PDF - 407kb]

  • The Australian Word Map – Sue Butler
  • Questions of Rhetoric – Bill Krebs
  • Feedback 22, Verbal Options
Volume 11.1, June 2003 [PDF - 293kb]

  • Words between languages and cultures – Verna Rieschild
  • On dinghy, a loanword from Hindi – Peter Last
  • Putting a newspaper online – John Grey
  • Feedback 21, Towards a Common Case

Volume 10.2, December 2002

  • Names and Genes – Flavia Hodges
  • SMS Messaging – Sue Butler
  • Feedback 20, Back in the Past

Volume 10.1, June 2002

  • Is 07 04 2002 the 4th of July? – Pat Naughtin
  • Visions of Heaven and Hell – Karl Wolf
  • Feedback 19, Into the Past

Volume 9.2, December 2001

  • Collecting Queensland Words – Julia Robinson
  • Communicating Measurement – Pat Naughtin
  • Feedback 18, Australianness

Volume 9.1, July 2001

  • What's in a Name – Sarah Chevalier
  • Why English Spelling Resists Reform – Valerie Yule
  • Feedback 17, Local Characters

Volume 8.2, December 2000

  • Email style: rebelling against Standard English? – Li Lan
  • Draft Australian Standards for Editing Practice – Kathie Stove
  • Feedback 16, Variable Pronunciations

Volume 8.1, June 2000

  • A reflection on style – Lindsay Mackerras
  • Feedback 15, Variable Pronunciations

Volume 7.2, December 1999

  • Australian Style Makes a Strong Comeback – Alan Kuslap
  • Fraud in Scientific Publishing – Paul Bennett
  • Who's Centric Now? - Shirley Purchase
  • Feedback 14, Spaced Out

Volume 7.1, May 1999

  • Corrupters, Bodyguards or Midwives? – John Curtain
  • Feedback 13, Dating the New Millennium

Volume 6.2, June 1998

  • The evolution of Australian style and usage – Paul Eggert
  • Teenage talk – Mark Newbrook
  • Unplain English is just plain rude – Paul Bennett
  • Feedback 12, Latin plurals

Volume 6.1, December 1997

  • A Chair with no leg to stand on – Michele Asprey
  • Aboriginality and English project – Ian Malcolm
  • English in Vietnam – Sasha Soldatow
  • Feedback 11, To capitalise or not to capitalise

Volume 5.2, June 1997

  • The influence of Aboriginal English – Peter Wignell
  • News from cyberspace – Donna Gibbs
  • Feedback 10, Spelling

Volume 5.1, December 1996

  • Auslan and myths about sign language – Des Power
  • New words of the 90s – Susan Butler
  • The national place names project – Bill Noble
  • Feedback 9, Word choices

Volume 4.2, June 1996

  • Greenspeak – Phil Smith
  • Feedback 8, Punctuation practices

Volume 4.1, December 1995

  • Political correctness: euphemism with attitude – Kate Burridge
  • Commonwealth Style Manual 6 – Lindsay Mackerras
  • Feedback 7, Disputed usage

Volume 3.2, June 1995

  • Putting grammar back in the school curriculum –Nick Evans, Mark Durie
  • Americanisms roll into Australian English – Roland Sussex
  • Feedback 6, Alternative usages

Volume 3.1, December 1994

  • A study of writing – Barbara Gassmann, Pam Peters, Richard Tardif
  • Re-introducing the study of grammar to primary schools – Geoff Williams
  • Feedback 5, Australian regionalisms

Volume 2.2, June 1994

  • Beyond Plain English – Nicky Solomon
  • Correctness versus Political Correctness – Bill Krebs
  • Feedback 4, Grammatical agreement

Volume 2.1, December 1993

  • Literacy and literacy standards – Paul Brock
  • The essence of teaching writing – Sue Spinks
  • Words in space – Karl Wolf
  • Feedback 3, Pronunciation

Volume 1.2, April 1993

  • Language Standards: What are they based on? – Pam Peters
  • Dirty, immoral or just nonstandard? – Colin Yallop
  • Standard Australian English – Arthur Delbridge
  • Feedback 2, Subjunctives

Volume 1.1, April 1993

  • Language Matters: To care or not to care? – Arthur Delbridge
  • Beyond 1988: Can there be an Australian standard of style? – Bill Krebs
  • Feedback 1, Alternative spellings

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