EDITORIAL

We are delighted to announce that Dorothy Jauncey's book Bardi Grubs and Frog Cakes: South Australian Words is now available. There are seven chapters: (1) 'The People Before: Words from Aboriginal Languages'; (2) ' "No Convict Taint": The Early Days of the Colony'; (3) ' "The Copper Kingdom": The Cornish and the Copper Mines'; (4) ' "A Paradise of Dissent": The German Lutheran Influence'; (5) 'Wealth from the Land: Wheat, Wool, and Wine'; (6) 'The Outback: Opals, Camels, and Woomera'; (7) 'The "Lifestyle State": The Festival, Grange, and Stobie Poles'.

The Centre's first book on regional Australian English was Words from the West: A Glossary of West Australian Terms (1994). This was followed by Tassie Terms: A Glossary of Tasmanian Words (1995), and Voices of Queensland: Words from the Sunshine State (2001). As with all good lexicography, these books are based on the principles of historical lexicography. This means that the historical evidence, in written form, for the use of the words and meanings has been established by the researcher. At the Centre we often find that memory and oral tradition are useful starting points ('I remember hearing that in a pub fifty years ago'), but they are always potentially unreliable, and a good historical mapper of the language will then proceed to track down the evidence.

On p. 5 Bruce Moore reports on another publication from the Centre: Aussie English for Beginners: Book 3, produced in collaboration with the cartoonist David Pope and the Australian National Museum.

Frederick Ludowyk

Editor, Ozwords