From, "chucking a sickie" to "having a yarn," these Aussie slang terms deserve a global audience.
Having grown up in Australia, I sometimes take our weird and wonderful lingo for granted. Sure, every culture develops its own unique slang; I thought I had learned Spanish until I turned up in Spain ...
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 ...
My new boss came up to me and asked a simple question: "How ya going?" "Going ... where?" I asked, eliciting a round of laughs. From Macca's to budgie smugglers, the Land Down Under has plenty of ...
Because slang captures elements of humanity that are not recorded elsewhere. “What slang really does is show us at our most ...