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The text explains early encounters during European exploration, illustrates how specific words entered English through recorded journals and publications, and clarifies linguistic variation among Aboriginal groups and dialects across different regions. 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This document outlines some of the most important sources of Australian words, and some of the important historical events that have shaped the creation of Australian words. At times, reference is made to the Australian Oxford Dictionary (OUP 1999) edited by Bruce Moore.  \n1. BORROWINGS FROM AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL LANGUAGES ...2  \n2. ENGLISH FORMATIONS .....................................................................7  \n3. THE CONVICT ERA ........................................................................... 11  \n4. BRITISH DIALECT ............................................................................. 15  \n5. BRITISH SLANG ................................................................................ 17  \n6. GOLD ................................................................................................. 18  \n7. WARS .................................................................................................21  \n1. BORROWINGS FROM AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL LANGUAGES  \nIn 1770 Captain James Cook was forced to beach the Endeavour for repairs near present-day Cooktown, after the ship had been damaged on reefs. He and Joseph Banks collected a number of Aboriginal words from the local Guugu Yimidhirr people. One of these words was kangaroo, the Guugu Yimidhirr name for the large black or grey kangaroo Macropus robustus. On 12 July 1770 Banks recorded in his journal ‘Kill Kanguru’, and on 4 August Cook wrote: ‘the Animal which I have before mentioned called by the natives Kangooroo or Kanguru’. The word found its way back to Britain. In Boswell's Life of Johnson for the year 1773 we find an account of the famous lexicographer Dr Johnson expounding on the nature of the new creature:  \nThe appearance, conformation, and habits of the qwuadruped were of the most singular kind; and in order to render his description more vivid and graphic, Johnson rose from the table and volunteered an imitation of the animal. The company stared; and Mr Grant said nothing could be more ludicrous than the appearance of a tall, heavy, grave-looking man, like Dr Johnson, standing up to mimic the shape and motions of a kangaroo. He stood erect, put out his hands like feelers, and, gathering up the tails of his huge brown coat so as to resemble the pouch of the animal, made two or three vigorous bounds across the room.  \nThus the word kangaroo had become part of the English language even before the First Fleet set sail. Cook and Banks mistakenly thought that kangaroo was a general or generic term for all kangaroos. Later, Banks gave Governor Phillip a vocabulary of the ‘New Holland language' to take with him on the First Fleet, and Phillip mistakenly thought that it must have been taken down at Botany Bay. Members of the First Fleet employed the word in talking to the local Aborigines, but it took them some time to realise that the Aborigines of the Sydney region did not understand the words that had been collected near Cooktown. David Collins, a naval officer who was appointed Deputy Judge-Advocate at Botany Bay in 1786, was one of the more astute  \nobservers. In his An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales (1798), he notes that the words adopted from the Sydney Aborigines pertained exclusively to the external world: ‘our knowledge of their language consisted at this time of only a few terms for such things as, being visible, could not well be mistaken; but no one had yet attained words enough to convey an idea in connected terms’. Collins recognised that the Sydney language was very different from the language Cook had recorded in northern Queensland: ‘The dialect spoken by the natives at Sydney not only differs entirely from that left us by Captain Cook of the people with whom he had intercourse to the northward,(about Endeavour river,) but","cbCainreeanI5VqD","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCainreeanI5VqD","pdf",93066,24,"English","# Borrowings from Australian Aboriginal languages\n## Early exploration and word transmission\n## Dialects and language diversity\n## Example loanwords and first-recorded dates\n# English formations\n# The convict era\n# British dialect\n# British slang\n# Gold\n# Wars","[{\"question\":\"What sources does the document use to explain Australian vocabulary?\",\"answer\":\"It outlines several important sources of Australian words, including Aboriginal language borrowings, English formations, the convict era, British dialect and slang, gold, and wars.\"},{\"question\":\"How did the word \\\"kangaroo\\\" enter English according to the text?\",\"answer\":\"Captain James Cook and Joseph Banks collected Aboriginal words in 1770, and Banks recorded the term in his journal while Cook wrote its spelling; the word then spread back to Britain and appears in later accounts such as Boswell's Life of Johnson.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does the document emphasize differences among Aboriginal languages and dialects?\",\"answer\":\"It explains that early European assumptions about general terms were incorrect, and it describes large-scale linguistic diversity—hundreds of dialects and many distinct languages—among Aboriginal groups when the First Fleet arrived.\"}]","The Vocabulary of Australian English - key sources and historical shaping of Australian words | PDF",1790619327,37,{"code":4,"msg":82,"data":99},[100,104,107,111,116,121,126,131,136,139,142],{"id":22,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":101,"show_sort_weight":102,"slug":103},"Story & Novel",90,"story-novel",{"id":26,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":29,"show_sort_weight":105,"slug":106},80,"literature",{"id":33,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":108,"show_sort_weight":109,"slug":110},"Exam",70,"exam",{"id":112,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":113,"show_sort_weight":114,"slug":115},5,"Comic",60,"comic",{"id":117,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":118,"show_sort_weight":119,"slug":120},6,"Technology",50,"technology",{"id":122,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":123,"show_sort_weight":124,"slug":125},7,"Healthcare",40,"healthcare",{"id":127,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":128,"show_sort_weight":129,"slug":130},8,"Research & Report",30,"research-report",{"id":132,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":133,"show_sort_weight":134,"slug":135},9,"Religion & Spirituality",20,"religion-spirituality",{"id":134,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":137,"show_sort_weight":134,"slug":138},"World Cup","world-cup",{"id":55,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":140,"show_sort_weight":55,"slug":141},"Lifestyle","lifestyle",{"id":143,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":144,"show_sort_weight":112,"slug":145},19,"General","general"]