{{Short description|Australian newspaper}} {{Italic title}} {{For| Ozwords, the radio segment on 2GB | Kel Richards}} {{Use Australian English|date=November 2017}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2017}}
thumb|Issues of June 1998, October 2014 '''''Ozwords''''' was a publication of the Australian National Dictionary Centre, a joint project of Oxford University Press and the Australian National University.
==History== ''Ozwords'' began in 1989 as a simple typescript ''Australian National Dictionary Centre Newsletter'' with limited circulation. Its scope and production values increased with the number of subscribers<ref name=anu/> until it was re-booted as ''Ozwords'' Volume 1, Issue 1, of January 1994.<ref>{{Citation | author1=Australian National Dictionary Centre | title=Ozwords : a newsletter from the Australian National Dictionary Centre|format=catalogue entry| website=National Library of Australia | publication-date=1994 | publisher=Oxford University Press | issn=1321-0858|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/11326132?keyword=ozwords}}</ref> From October 1999 until 2019, it was published twice a year in April and October.<ref name=anu/>
'''Frederick Ludowyk''' (1 September 1934 – 15 May 2012<ref>{{cite web | title=Frederick Ludowyk Death Notice | website=The Age | date=21 May 2012 | url=https://tributes.theage.com.au/obituaries/83023/frederick-ludowyk/ | access-date=12 February 2024}}</ref>), writer and playwright,<ref>{{cite web | title=Frederick Ludowyk | website=Trove | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/people/1821848 | access-date=12 February 2024}}</ref> edited the journal for some years.<ref>{{cite book| url=https://slll.cass.anu.edu.au/sites/default/files/andc/Ozwords%20October%202012.pdf |date= October 2012 | volume= 21 |issue= 2| title=Ozwords}}</ref>
After 2012, it was also published online as a blog.<ref>{{Citation | author1=Australian National Dictionary Centre | author2=Australian National University, (issuing body) | author3=Oxford University Press, (issuing body) | title=Ozwords | publication-date=2012 | publisher=Australian National Dictionary Centre | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/196443100 | access-date=12 February 2024}}</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20210524150707/http://ozwords.org/ Ozwords website], 9 December 2019 (archived 2021))</ref> Its last issue was Volume 28, Number 2 of October 2019, at which time it was being published twice a year.<ref name=anu>{{cite web | title=Ozwords | website=ANU. School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics. ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences | date=18 October 2010 | url=https://slll.cass.anu.edu.au/centres/andc/ozwords | access-date=12 February 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite book| url=https://slll.cass.anu.edu.au/sites/default/files/OZWORDS_OCT_2019_FINAL.pdf |date= October 2019 | volume= 28 |issue= 2| title=Ozwords}}</ref>
==Content== The newsletter reported on activities of the centre, such as the retirement in 1994 of the director, Bill Ramson and the appointment of his successor, Bruce Moore,<ref name=TCT>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article130537442 |title=The Next Issue of Ozwords |newspaper=The Canberra Times |volume=70 |issue=21,759 |location=Australian Capital Territory, Australia |date=13 November 1994 |access-date=30 August 2023 |page=22 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> and some advertising material, but also included essay-length articles on some aspect of Australian vernacular, letters to the editor, and a twice-yearly competition, the prize being a $100 discount on any OUP publication.
Subscription was free of charge, on receipt of a written or faxed request.<ref name=TCT/>
== References == {{Reflist}}
== External links == * [https://slll.cass.anu.edu.au/centres/andc/ozwords Ozwords] on the ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences, with all back issues
Category:Defunct newsletters Category:Australian English Category:1994 establishments in Australia Category:2019 disestablishments in Australia