A kindly English teacher gave me a copy of “Strine” when I was young – presumably to get me to sit down and/or shut up, as many of my teachers found it pleasing to do. I had completely forgotten about it, until the other day, when it just popped back into my head. In the [...]
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I am lucky enough that the regular readers of this effort seem to like it enough to want to come back again – but even luckier that some decide to write a piece themselves. Today is one of those days, so here with a word I’d certainly never heard of is the Lone Wolf himself, [...] There seems to be a rash of “word(s) of the year” around this time of year. Fine by me – at least I can guarantee something to write about around Christmas! This month, it falls to the Macquarie Dictionary of Australian English. You may remember that last year’s poll gave us the splendid “muffin top” [...] |
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