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Working at the Australian National Dictionary Centre, and using the proven methods of historical lexicography, Brooks and Ritchie have compiled Tassie Terms. A companion volume to their Words from the West, in this book they record words used in, and perhaps peculiar to, a Tasmania. Tassie Terms contains some 645 dictionary entries of words with approximately 200 associated terms.
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