In honour of today’s Australian based national public holiday, here’s a post on Kangaroo: the international and regional word, which was prepared by the Australian National Dictionary Staff and posted on the Oxford Dictionary Blog. Turns out that explorer James Cook and botanist Joseph Banks learned the name from local peoples while temporarily ship-wrecked in …
For all you language-o-philes out there (especially scrabble players and the like) here are three updates from the Oxford English Dictionary listing words they added to the dictionary during the last year. (Guess which words my proofreader didn’t recognise when finalising this post.) 12 September 2013 Examples: campsite, n. weself, pron. 13 June 2013 Examples: …
You might not think one full stop makes much difference, but if you were out walking on these trails you’d think it was pretty important. Small details matter. source
At their OZWords blog, the Australian National Dictionary Centre are featuring some of the words and phrases that have been submitted to their Word Box, an online portal which invites the submission of newly minted terms. Among this batch are ‘awks’, ‘whatevs’ and ‘captain’s pick’, which I have run into, and others with which I …
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