Australian Pocket Oxford Dictionary Fifth Edition,

This is a thoroughly revised and updated new edition of Australia’s best-selling dictionary. Extensive and versatile, this dictionary is firmly established as a favourite reference in schools, homes and offices. It provides extensive and unrivalled coverage of Australian English for a dictionary in this format. The text has been updated to take account of new words and meanings (including transgenic, euro, Easter bilby, song line, and wombat crossing), and contains guidance to pronunciation, grammar, syntax, punctuation, style and usage.

Dr Bruce Moore is director of the Australian National Dictionary Centre at the Australian National University and has drawn on both the database of the 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary and the database of Australian English for the most authoritative and up-to-date dictionary entries.

• over 60,000 headwords
• in-text usage notes
• word origins are provided, particularly for words borrowed from Aboriginal languages
• pronunciation given for words which may cause problems, using a respelling system with minimal special symbols