Foreword
There are at least two good reasons for studying the forms of English used in Australia and New Zealand.

Chapter 1
English Transported
A geography prescriptive rather than descriptive once denied the possibility of an antipodes, for, said Cosmas, a sixth-century monk, 'let each of you who has sound vision and the power of reasoning justly turn the earth round whatever way he pleases, and let him say whether the antipodes can all be standing upright in the same sense of the expression'.