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Susan Butler with The Wheeler Centre
Jun 26, 2015 | 0 Comments
Working with Words: Susan Butler
Susan Butler is the editor of Australia's national dictionary, the Macquarie Dictionary. She talks to us about life at the frontline of language – why she's 'the woman with the mop and bucket', and what it's like reading the dictionary from A to Z.
Working with Words: Susan Butler | Sophie Quick | Books, reading & writing
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From Inamorata to Friend with Benefits
Jun 15, 2015 | 0 Comments
Susan Butler writes about the language of love
The words associated with romance used to be: affair of the heart, amour, beloved, true love. Going further back there was inamorata, dulcinea and gallant. Read more...
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Susan Butler's TEDxSydney speech
Jun 02, 2015 | 1 Comment
People think that I have enormous power.
People think I have the power to say YES to words that wish to join the dictionary of the righteous or NO to other words, banished to unspeakable darkness. Read more...
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