australian English
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Posted by Kati Sule on October 28, 2011
This week’s ‘language in new media’ post brings you a new radio fragment from ABC’s Radio Australia. In earlier broadcasts, the origins of koala and well-known local flora, such as acacia and wattle, were explained. In this excerpt, Susan Butler, Editor of The Macquarie Dictionary, explains how Australian plants like boronia, pittosporum and melaleuca got [...]
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Posted by Caroline Short on September 16, 2011
This week’s ‘language in new media’ post comes courtesy of ABC’s Radio Australia. In an excerpt from their regular Tuesday Australian English spot, Macquarie Dictionary Editor Sue Butler talks us through the origins of words such as koala and kookaburra: Naming Australian native animals
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Posted by Susan Butler on September 27, 2010
From origin to originality … In the first two blog posts about Australian English slang, author Susan Butler explored the roots and British English influences of Aussie slang. In this final part, she answers the question: ‘What makes Australian slang special and original?’. Susan Butler is Publisher of the Macquarie Book of Slang (Revised Edition [...]
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Posted by Susan Butler on September 23, 2010
In the first part of our short series on Australian English slang, author Susan Butler talked about the origins of Aussie slang. In this second part, she explores the influences of colonial British English. Susan Butler is Publisher of the Macquarie Book of Slang (Revised Edition 2000). ___________ It is not surprising that colonial society in [...]
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Posted by Susan Butler on September 21, 2010
Australian English month continues with a three-part series on the topic of slang. Guest blog author Susan Butler is Publisher of the Macquarie Book of Slang (Revised Edition 2000). Part one takes a look at the origins of Australian slang. ____________ Australians worry about Australian English as a whole being swamped by American English, but when [...]
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Posted by Fida Slayman on September 15, 2010
We continue our musings about Australian English with a guest post from Fida Slayman. Fida is a freelance writer, journalist and English language teacher. You can contact her on this address. _______ “Everyone here calls me Mike,” my father declared as we were waiting at Melbourne airport for our connecting flight to Adelaide. My family [...]
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Posted by Jesse Karjalainen on September 13, 2010
Australian English month continues with a new guest post from Jesse Karjalainen. Jesse is Australian but lives in the UK and works as a writer and editor. He also edits the online English-usage website www.whichenglish.com. ________ One thing that really sets “Strine” – or (au)STRA(li)AN English – apart from its linguistic cousins is its almost [...]
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Posted by Charlotte Ellis on September 09, 2010
Our next guest post on the topic of Australian English comes from Charlotte Ellis. Charlotte lives in Oxford, UK and works as Marketing Executive at Macmillan Education. _________ In my four-year-old perception of the world I lived not far away from Ramsey Street. My mother would wistfully sigh at Neighbours over the ironing and point [...]
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Posted by Jodie Martin on September 07, 2010
Australian English month continues with a guest post from Jodie Martin, an Australian PhD student of linguistics, studying jazz music student writing. She has started blogging about her PhD in ‘Linguistics and all that jazz’ and tweets as @jazzlinguist. _________ The best thing about studying languages are those moments when someone points out some simple [...]
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Posted by Jesse Karjalainen on September 02, 2010
Our first guest blog in Australian English month comes from Jesse Karjalainen about the similarities and differences between Australian and British and American English. Australian Jesse Karjalainen lives in the UK and works as a writer and editor. He also edits the online English-usage website www.whichenglish.com. ____________ The Australian accent is famous the world over [...]
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