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 ...

We language educators know that words are much more than just words. Words are windows into a society’s “cultural universe”. Aussie words and idioms then provide a great entry point into Australian ...

Carn, spew, and goon are some of the colloquialisms added to the Australian edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. Carla Mascarenhas is the NSW correspondent covering breaking news, state politics ...