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Book of New Zealand Words by Dianne Bardsley
44.99 NZD
Category: Dictionaries | Reading Level: very good
Away laughing/O for awesome/Box of birds/By gorry! This accessible yet definitive little text contains over 1,500 samples from New Zealand’s distinctive vocabulary. For the first time since Orsman’s 1997 Dictionary of New Zealand English here are fresh New Zealandisms and examples of their use, from bot ...Show more
In the Paddock and on the Run: The Language of Rural New Zealand by Dianne Bardsley
49.95 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
This is the first book to explore the rich heritage of language the rural sector has generated. For two hundred years people have come from all over the world to work in New Zealand's rural enterprises. From this linguistic melting pot, which includes the addition of indigenous Maori words, phrases and ...Show more
Oxford New Zealand School Dictionary by Dianne Bardsley
24.99 NZD
Category: Dictionaries
Specifically designed for New Zealand intermediate and secondary school students, this new edition has been extensively revised and updated. Features include: -Over 20,000 headwords -Lists of common New Zealand abbreviations, acronyms and initialisms -New Zealand flora and fauna can be found in the stud ...Show more
Q and Eh - Questions and Answers on Language with a Kiwi Twist by Laurie Bauer; Dianne Bardsley; Janet Holmes; Paul Warren
39.99 NZD
Category: Language | Reading Level: good-very good
Why is it not wrong to be doubly negative? Where do you place the stress in such words as 'dissect'? Where does 'wowser', 'craw thumper' and the 'f-word' come from? Do New Zealanders mangle the English language? Should we say different 'from' or 'to' or 'than'? We use it every day, but what is this thin ...Show more
The Land Girls: In a Man's World, 1939-1946 by Dianne Bardsley
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: Good
This book is based on the oral histories of 130 women who worked as land girls during the Second World War and the written interviews of 90 others. Wartime land girls broke new ground. Throughout the nation, for the first time, women were in paid employment on farms, making administrative decisions. Pre ...Show more
The New Zealand Oxford Primary School Dictionary by Dianne Bardsley (ed.)
18.99 NZD
Category: Dictionaries | Series: NZ Dictionaries/Thesauruses/Reference Ser.
This is a major new edition of this best-selling dictionary, written especially for New Zealand students aged 10-12 years of age. Fully revised with many new features this dictionary is the essential reference resource for upper primary school students. It provides information that should help develop a ...Show more
The New Zealand Oxford School Thesaurus by Dianne Bardsley
21.95 NZD
Category: Reference | Series: NZ Dictionaries/Thesauruses/Reference Ser.
The only thesaurus available specifically compiled for New Zealand school students, The New Zealand School Thesauruscontains more than 150,000 similar or related words, and also contains antonyms for many of the headwords. Word usage is included with example phrases to show how the headword is used in c ...Show more
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