Australian spelling
- noun
- Australian
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ortografía australiana
- When writing for an Australian audience, it's best to use Australian spelling throughout your document.
Examples
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The word 'colour' is an example of Australian spelling differing from American English spelling.
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Australian newspapers generally follow Australian spelling rather than British or American forms.
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I prefer Australian spelling in my essays.
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The Australian spelling of 'colour' includes a 'u'.
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Australian newspapers generally follow Australian spelling rather than British or American forms.
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The word 'colour' is an example of Australian spelling differing from American English spelling.
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When writing for an Australian audience, it's best to use Australian spelling throughout your document.
Synonyms
A standard way to spell words in Australia like 'colour' instead of 'color'
Spelling and writing rules used in Australia for English
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is fully compositional: 'Australian' (connected with Australia) modifies 'spelling' (the arrangement of letters), so the combined meaning 'the way words are spelled in Australia' follows directly from its parts. This demonym + feature pattern is cross-linguistically common and predictable, so a B1 learner who knows both words will understand it.
Etymology
Australian spelling comes from the people who moved from Britain to Australia long ago; they brought British ways of writing and later chose some local forms. So, Australian spelling means the particular 'way' Australians 'spell' words today.
