What looks to be a straightforward, simple little expression is anything but.
It’s so quintessential that it has a habit of slipping into nearly every other phrase without a thought. Yep, it’s …
The Australian summer has provided its own colourful vocabulary over the years, from Spooners to speedos and bush walks to hikes.
As you make your yuletide preparations, do you wonder where some of the season’s strange words come from? Our linguistic experts have the answers.
An extensive study is underway to catalogue Australian slang, its origins, and why it’s such an important part of our language.
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.
Monash Country Lines archive founder John Bradley is 38 years into a journey tracing and recording vanishing oral traditions in an Indigenous heartland.
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