The ANU is moving to kill the Australian National Dictionary – this is why it matters
- Written by Howard Manns, Senior Lecturer in Linguistics, Monash University
Bonzer. Dinkum. Troppo. We love our distinctive words and phrases.
We revel in the confusion they cause outsiders. We celebrate the stories behind them. We even make up a few furphies about them.
What many Australians might not know, however, is that for nearly 40 years a dedicated team at the Australian National University (ANU) has been hard at...
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