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Budgie smugglers and free traders
Andrew Marr’s Start the Week on Radio 4 yesterday was a wonderful distraction from the seemingly interminable talk of hung parliaments, coalition governments, proportional representation, progressive...
View ArticleAussie words of the year – the ones that got away
Bringing up the rear in the Word of the Year announcements, Australia’s Macquarie Dictionary revealed its choices for 2011 last week. As mentioned in a previous post, the Oxford Dictionaries WOTY was...
View ArticleStrewth: a treasure trove of Aussie lingo
I recently came across a wonderful treasure trove of YouTube video clips on the Australian Geographic website. They feature an Aussie bloke called Frank Povah talking about Aussie English – anything...
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