Do you know your “yeah, nah” from your “nah, yeah”? Or your “woop woop” from your “wig out”? Australians have long prided themselves on putting their own twist on the English language. Across the ...

Writer C.R Read cautioned in 1853 “that Englishmen going to the Australian digging should search their souls and ask themselves ‘if they can stand a little colonial slang’”. This slang – our ...

THE uninitiated would be flat out like a lizard drinking trying to figure out what us ‘Strayans are banging on about half the time. Here’s the ultimate guide to our lingo. Wait, what? The uninitiated ...

As the debate continues over whether Australia Day should be celebrated on January 26, this series looks at the politics of some unresolved issues swirling around Australia Day – namely, the republic ...

Selfie, arvo, brekky -- use these words and people will like you more. It's a fact. Well, according to a study by the Australian National University Research School of Psychology's Dr Evan Kidd, who ...

A TikTok user shared a video explaining where an Aussie term came from – but many said they’d “never heard it” before. Have you? But my most recent discovery was a completely new one – and it turns ...

The Australian National Dictionary, a standard guide to the Australian vernacular, added 6,000 words and phrases on Tuesday, its first update since 1988. Test your knowledge of the new terms with this ...