Dictionaries & Glossaries

The Australian National Dictionary: a Dictionary of Australianisms on Historical Principles. (Ed.) W.S. Ransome. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1988.

A Dictionary of South African English on Historical Principles. (Ed.) Penny Silva. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.

BEAL, Peter. A Dictionary of English Manuscript Terminology 1450-2000. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.

FALCONER, William. An Universal Dictionary of the Marine, or, a Copious Explanation of the Technical Terms and Phrases employed in the Construction, ...of a Ship. London: Thomas Cadell, 1769.

GROSE, Francis. The Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. London: C. Chappel, 1811.
[Original title: Lexicon Balatronicum: a Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit and Pickpocket Eloquence].

JEANS, Peter D. Ship to Shore: a dictionary of everyday words and phrases dervived from the sea. Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 1993.

LAUGESEN, Amanda. Convict Words: language in early colonial Australia. South Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2002.

LEWIS, Ivor. Sahibs, Nabobs and Boxwallahs; a dictionary of the words of Anglo-India. Bombay: Oxford University Press, 1991.

Oxford English Dictionary.

Tassie Terms: a glossary of Tasmanian words. (comp.) Maureen Brooks and Joan Ritchie. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1995.

The Scottish National Dictionary: ...containing all the Scottish words known to be in use or to have been in use since c.1700. (eds.) William Grant and David D. Murison. Edinburgh: the Scottish National Dictionary Association Ltd., 1927-1976. 10 vols.

WHITWORTH, George Clifford. An Anglo-Indian Dictionary. A Glossary of Indian Terms used in English, and of such English or other non-Indian Terms as have obtained special meaning in India. London; Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1885. [Facsimile reprint: New Delhi; Indian Documentation Service, 1976.

YULE, Henry and Burnell, A.C. Hobson-Jobson: a glossary of colloquial Anglo-Indian words and phrases, and of kindred terms, etymological, historical, geographical and discursive. Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal, 1968 (2nd ed.). [New ed. edited by William Crooke].

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