Do you know your “yeah, nah” from your “nah, yeah”? Or your “woop woop” from your “wig out”? Australians have long prided themselves on putting their own twist on the English language. Across the ...
TV's fifth NCIS series is the first one with an international setting. Let's see if we can't help you proactively navigate the "language" barrier, as NCIS: Sydney continues to unspool Season 2 on CBS.
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Is Australian English under threat from the Americans? It's not as simple as you might think
Dudes, dudines and dudettes of Australia, we need to talk about border security. Our long-time frenemies—the Americans (hey bae!)—seem to be taking over our English. For many Aussies, our linguistic ...
I know there's got to be a few aussies on here, so I thought I might just ask. Don't ask me how I started thinking about this, but I'd like to know the real word origins of some cliche'd australian ...
As teens develop slang each generation, parents seem to even need the help of linguists to understand the new terms. Experts say the new terminology appears to cover the same preoccupations. (Scripps ...
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