"Stop paying me out!"
How a common English phrasal verb often has a very different meaning in Australia...
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The tagline for one of Australia's most gruesome yet successful public awareness campaigns ever entered the Australian vernacular and is still used today. The story behind the saying:
If you drink, then drive, you're a bloody idiot!
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Australia's Macquarie Dictionary has released its 2025 Word-of-the-Year shortlist
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Latest term I've discovered is solely Australian (and New Zealand):
Glory box
Granted, it's very dated but a glory box is "a wooden box for woman's clothes and household items stored in preparation for marriage"
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As the weather is all over the place at the moment, you'll probably hear Aussies say that "the bomb's got it wrong".
So what's this "bomb"?
The answer to this here...
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Back from Australia with the latest on Aussie English in action.
Highlights include the welcome return of "drongo" and there's one debate with Australian terminology that always ends up messy – and it's to do with a common food paste/spread...
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Australian English loves diminutives, i.e. shortening words and names and banging an '-ie' or '-o' at the end of it.
But you need to be careful when to do it, as this case shows...
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Have you heard that many miners have dongas Down Under, some bigger than others?
The meaning and disputed origin of the Australian term "donga"...
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Australian English: FIFO, DIDO and BIBO (pronounced Fie-Foe, Die-Doe and Buy-Boe)
More on what these work-related acronyms mean here...
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Australian English: quenda vs qanda
These two uniquely Australian terms may sound the same but refer to two very different things. Find out more here...
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Aussies love wearing thongs outdoors.
But does "thongs" mean the same in Australia as it does in other countries? Find out here...
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Australian English word of the day:
Receival
meaning "the action or an act of receiving", it's what otherwise is "receipt" in most other variants/dialects of English
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Bludging on a smoko as if you've chucked a sickie?
Welcome to work-related Australian English vocab about... not working
Essential words to know for the Aussie workplace!
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Did you ever wag school?
'Wag' here in Australian English means 'to play truant'.
It used to be solely a slang term that kids would say, but now it can be found in formal texts in Australia.
More about 'wag' here...
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Do you know that in Australia if you use the 'wrong' term to market Anzac biscuits, you could face a huge fine?
More about Australian English use of biscuit and the 'c' word here...
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The podcast is also available on YouTube, so you can see my mug too! 😀
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Australian English: footpath.
A 'footpath' in Australia is a 'sidewalk' in North America.
Signs with the same wording are also seen in the UK; however, the UK equivalent to the Australian 'footpath' is 'pavement'.
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"She's off her L's and on her P's"
Do you know what this means in Australian English?
It relates to a term that slightly differs depending on which English-dominant country you're in...
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