EDITORIAL

The address of the ANDC webpage is http://www.anu.edu.au/ANDC. I mention this because we have been updating the site and adding new features.

The site is now divided into five sections. ‘About the Centre’ explains the kind of work we do, gives information on staff members, and provides links to other dictionary sites. ‘Publications’ gives information about the books the Centre has produced, including a series of linguistic monographs and the range of Oxford University Press Australian dictionaries. The section ‘For Schools’ provides a number of dictionary exercises for use in the classroom, including a detailed project ‘A Guide to Making your own Dictionary’. The section ‘Ozwords’ includes back numbers of our newsletter from October 1996. ‘Australian English’ includes histories of a large number of Australian words, and has a selection of historical documents relating to Australian English during the nineteenth-century gold rushes.

There have been some important dictionary publications in the past few months. In August a new edition of the Australian Pocket Oxford Dictionary was published, as was Bill Ramson’s Lexical Images (see page 5), and in September a new edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary appeared.

Frederick Ludowyk

Editor, Ozwords