He has also written over 60 books for 16 publishers including contributions to the Macquarie Dictionary, atlases, communication text books and travel guides.
For example, the Macquarie Dictionary reflects the pronunciation of four phonetically distinct sociolects of Australian English.
On 29 November 2013, Vaughan was featured on the front page of a local newspaper The North Shore Times, with the announcement that as a result of his efforts, the terms vexillographer along with vexillography, which had first appeared in an interview with Vaughan carried by the same publication in 1976, will be included in subsequent editions of Australia's Macquarie Dictionary.
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