An English tradie living in Australia has revealed an embarrassing ... with social media users also having a chuckle at the X ...
and different ethnocultural variations of Australian English used by migrants like Filipinos. Shortening words is a common practice in Australia, like saying "avo" for avocado, "brekky" for ...
Australia in 100 words has been compiled by Amanda Laugesen, chief editor of the Australian National Dictionary, and is based on 50 years of research into Australian English for that dictionary ...
The new edition of the Australian National Dictionary includes 500 plus words from 100 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages. The new edition of the Australian National Dictionary ...
are American in origin — all the rest are either English or Australian. More recently, Australian journalist Andrew Herrick decried the use of American words like “sandbox”, “mugging” an ...