a new book charts the 11-year making of a 'people's dictionary' for Australia
- Written by Roslyn Petelin, Course coordinator, The University of Queensland
Even the dictionary entry defining lamingtons proved controversial ...shutterstockReview: More Than Words: The Making of the Macquarie Dictionary by Pat Manser (Pan Macmillan)
In 1973 Pat Manser answered an advertisement in the Sydney Morning Herald seeking a research assistant to work on phonetic transcriptions for a dictionary of Australian...





