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Doomsday, Judgement Day, or the Apocalypse, whatever you want to call it, the strategy of being prepared for an unknown disaster is now becoming more and more a reality for some people. As I was flipping through the channels on TV the other night, I happened across an American reality show – Doomsday Preppers, profiling … Read more
We are always on the lookout for new, emerging and interesting words to add to the Macquarie Dictionary. In a time of global instant communication, these words are popping up faster and in vaster quantities than ever before. Read more…
The Australian Writers’ Centre recently held a competition asking for the best invented portmanteau. They awarded their winners, but we’ve trawled through the entries and found some favourites of our own. Read more…
Oxford University Press, in revising the headword list of their Junior Dictionary, gave rise to a discussion in the British press… Read more…
We are always on the lookout for new, emerging and interesting words to add to the Macquarie Dictionary. In a time of global instant communication, these words are popping up faster and in vaster quantities than ever before. Read more…
Spare a thought for the words that disappear from use because the thing they represent becomes outmoded. Read more…
Recently we discovered that some of us used the little word quite in quite different ways. Some of us were quite devastated by this. Read more…
The spelling gaol was the accepted spelling in Australian English until the 1990s… Read more…
The phrase fit as a fiddle dates back to the 1600s in British English, but had a slightly different meaning then. Read more…
