The Oxford Australia blog selects ‘schmick up’ (verb: to smarten (something) up; to renovate (something); to improve (something) superficially) as its word for the month of November. The post reports that the adjective schmick has undergone the contemporary fashion of being verbed and nouned, in this case with the addition of ‘up’ (thankfully we’ve been …
Two articles. The first deals with nine words that have so commonly changed to new meanings that even language pedants are likely to have adopted the new meanings. Think sodden means saturated? Not originally. The second provides seventy-five incorrectly used words. These are situations where the user mistakenly selects a word that doesn’t really mean …
The Oxford Australia blog features a word-of-the-month that began as an acronym: CUB – cashed-up bogan. Apparently CUB is included in the second edition of the Australian National Dictionary, so that makes it a word, I guess. The article tries to make the case that the term has transformed from a derogatory pejorative to a …
Australians will contract pretty much any word. As this video demonstrates.
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