Editing South African English (section)

=== History of SAE dictionaries ===
In 1913, Charles Pettman created the first South African English dictionary, entitled ''Africanderisms''. This work sought to identify Afrikaans terms that were emerging in the English language in South Africa.<ref name=":2">{{Cite journal|last=Taylor|first=Tim|year=1994|title=Review of A Lexicon of South African Indian English|jstor=30028394|journal=Anthropological Linguistics|volume=36|issue=4|pages=521–524}}</ref> In 1924, the [[Oxford University Press]] published its first version of a South African English dictionary, ''The South African Pocket Oxford Dictionary.'' Subsequent editions of this dictionary have tried to take a "broad editorial approach" in including vocabulary terms native to South Africa, though the extent of this inclusion has been contested.<ref name=":2" /> [[Rhodes University]] (South Africa) and [[University of Oxford|Oxford University]] (Great Britain) worked together to produce the 1978 ''Dictionary of South African English,'' which adopted a more conservative approach in its inclusion of terms. This dictionary did include, for the first time, what the dictionary writers deemed "the jargon of townships", or vocabulary terms found in Black journalism and literary circles.<ref name=":2" /> Dictionaries specialising in scientific jargon, such as the common names of South African plants, also emerged in the twentieth century. However, these works still often relied on Latin terminology and European pronunciation systems.<ref name=":2" /> {{as of|1992}}, Rajend Mesthrie had produced the only available dictionary of [[Indian South Africans|South African Indian]] English.<ref name=":2" />