Colloquialisms such as barbie and smoko are like accents – part of the glue that brings together Australian English speakers.
The Australian summer has provided its own colourful vocabulary over the years, from Spooners to speedos and bush walks to hikes.
Medicine's linguistic history in English is rich indeed, peppered with borrowings from French, but the Old English renderings retain a certain charm.
"Karen", the name that has become code for boorish, entitled behaviour, joins a long history of names being appropriated for various purposes – often unkindly.
Times of crisis have always changed our slang, with the help of a little black humour. Coronavirus is no exception.
We may no longer say ‘shiver me timbers’, but we still use plenty of pirate words for other things.
The Aussie accent has been lambasted as "lazy", but this isn't supported by the facts.
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