A famous AFL term has been added to the Oxford English Dictionary It comes as several other new words have been included in the iconic text The Oxford English Dictionary has announced that it is ...

[cnxvideo id=”763007″ placement=”ros”]Until its restrictive immigration laws were eased in the mid-20th century, Australia’s culture, apart from that of the ...

A new study of Australian English is trying to find out if Australians all sound the same, or if people speak differently in the country compared to cities or across the states. PhD researcher Sydney ...

Language can be a very perplexing thing in Australia. Words like "mate" and "bogan" are commonly understood, but dig deeper and the confusion starts to set in. Well the end of your confusion is nigh, ...

When I was a teacher, an unfamiliar student approached me in the schoolyard during play lunch, or the mid-morning break. “Is it true you read the dictionary for fun?” he enquired. His response to my ...

With the Dalton furphy, though, we see evidence of something called “epenthesis”, the insertion of extra sounds. Just as Dalton adds a vowel after his trilled “r” in a-larrr-akin, many Aussies add a ...