In this stressful time of coronavirus, it’s interesting to see that our passions have been aroused by an international dispute over the pronunciation of a

Rebel Without A Clause by Sue Butler is a fascinatingly idiosyncratic romp through the world of words from the former Editor of the Macquarie Dictionary coming

Aussies love sticking a bet on the races, particularly at Melbourne Cup time. If you’re lucky enough to win big you might find it in

A flicker of movement in the corner of your eye. You are being hunted. Eight legs creep across the wall. Tangled in a web of

This week, we are walking through the Bogan gate, and we don’t mean the town in Central New South Wales. A Bogan gate is a gate

This week’s Word of the Week is dedicated to your granny. How many times did she catch you with your hand in the biscuit tin?

Welcome to our new words blog, where we share new and topical words, some of which were submitted by you via the suggest a word feature

We’ve all been to enough school dances and weddings to know that Aussies love to get in line and dance in sync. From the nutbush

While popularly remembered as a chain of restaurants, the term black stump was commonly used in colonial times as a colloquial term to denote a

Many English words have been borrowed from French (and many other languages). There are lots of words that descend from the French language that crossed

The release of the Macquarie Dictionary Eighth Edition should be a celebration of all of the new and wonderful words that have entered our lexicon in

We hope you’re wearing a clean pair, because this week we are discussing the unmentionables. Underdaks, also called underchunders or underdungers, is a colloquial name for your underpants. Daks

This week we are talking about galahs but not the endemic Australian cockatoo with its grey and pink plumage and cute chatter. Galah also means fool. As in Get

Today we have a blog that will send a shiver down your spine…brr (sorry).  With winter on its way out we thought this was our

A recent poll in the UK found that 74% of respondents treat the word ‘data’ as a singular collective nouns, compared to 14% that treat it

Look a-yonder comin’ Comin’ down that railroad track  – Johnny Cash No, it’s not the Orange Blossom Special, it’s a rattler: any type of train

Today we feature a classic piece of Aussie slang, a word for all situations, so flexible that it can bend into any lexicon, what was

At a time when we are all relying to the expertise of our doctors and nurses, we are on the lookout for quacks, and not