If you’ve not heard this one, we might be positively ropeable! It is a piece of classic Aussie slang from the 1870s that is still going strong today. It means to be seething with anger; literally, ‘fit to be tied’.
Of course, in another classic Australian icon, Kath and Kim, famous for its malapropisms, ropeable was rotated out in favour of the erroneous gropeable. So perhaps this is the one you are more used to hearing?
We’re on a rapid collision course with the end of the year once again, which means we’re approaching Word of the Year season! That time of the year when we take lexical-stock and decide on a word* that seems to encapsulate something of the year that has been.
We get asked this question a lot, so we thought we’d get in ahead of the game. Readers, take note. What is a ‘word’? When we consider the lexical treasures of the year that has been, we will crown one lexical item as the ‘Word of the Year’. It may, or may not, be made up of two words. Here’s why.
