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Words Fail Me: A Journey Through Australia's Lost Language
by
Hugh Lunn
This long anticipated follow-up to the hugely successful and popular LOST FOR WORDS revisits the rich, inventive and rogueish language Australians used to speak, before globalism stole it away.
Hundreds of readers have responded to author Hugh Lunn′s request and donated a torrent of forgotten words and sayings that he overlooked in his first book.
′So many arrived it was lik...more
Hundreds of readers have responded to author Hugh Lunn′s request and donated a torrent of forgotten words and sayings that he overlooked in his first book.
′So many arrived it was lik...more
Paperback, 352 pages
Published
November 1st 2010
by Harper Collins Australia
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Jan 01, 2011
Angela Alcorn
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Found this book through an Aussie Goodreads group's thread. Looks interesting.
i didn't read this word for word, just went through and picked out some bits of interest. it was ok.. might be good for a true blue Australian
Oct 21, 2011
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