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Famous AFL term becomes one of 11 Aussie words to make it into the world's best-known dictionary

A famous AFL term has been added to the Oxford English Dictionary It comes as several other new words have been included in the iconic text The Oxford English Dictionary has announced that it is ...
Business Insider

I spent a year living in Sydney and these are the Australian slang words I've permanently added to my vocabulary

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Australian Words and Phrases Americans Just Don’t Get

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The New York Times

Disappearing Slang and Cultural Variants: How Australian English Is Changing

Readers reflect on the country’s many different accents. By Yan Zhuang The Australia Letter is a weekly newsletter from our Australia bureau. Sign up to get it by email. Last week, I wrote about ...
The Conversation

10 ways Aboriginal Australians made English their own

Celeste Rodriguez Louro receives funding from The Australian Research Council. Glenys Dale Collard is affiliated with Mallee Aboriginal Corporation. Aboriginal English is spoken by an estimated 80% of ...
The Conversation

Is Australian English under threat from the Americans? It’s not as simple as you might think

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