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Topic: Language

‘Cooker’ to ‘naccered’: The latest lingo from the world of polliewaffle

Culture

Sep 07, 2023

20

A composite of SpaceX's Starship launches from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, and Elon Musk (Image: AAP/AP/Eric Gay)

‘Rapid unscheduled disassembly’: a potted history of great political euphemisms

Politics

Apr 24, 2023

23

(Image: Gorkie/Private Media)

Despite years of right-wing rhetoric, turns out people like being woke

Media

Mar 17, 2023

57

Goblin

‘Goblin mode’ touched with fairy dust and given title of Oxford word of the year

Culture

Dec 06, 2022

1

‘Permacrisis’: word of the year, or in the making? Dictionary choice apt but not commonly said

Society

Nov 03, 2022

5

Et tu, Boofhead? A linguistic guide for embattled ministers

Politics

Aug 05, 2022

4

What in the Wordle is caulk?

Culture

Feb 17, 2022

26

The evolution of woke: once hip and well-informed, now a sneaky shiv of abuse

Society

Nov 17, 2021

17

people-protesting-indigenous-flag

Indigenous, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders? It’s not black and white

Politics

Jun 09, 2020

Scott Morrison covid-19

Is Scott Morrison really a climate denialist? A linguist turned his skills to the task

Politics

Jan 23, 2020

24

A lesson for the PM: speak up, but stick to English

Politics

Aug 22, 2019

7

On resisting the ‘bonk ban’, ‘business bashing’ and other phrases made to distract us

Media

Feb 20, 2018

14

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