It would be 'aggressively Australian', holding a mirror up to contemporary society. The creation of the first Macquarie Dictionary, while not without controversies, was a cultural milestone.
The Macquarie Dictionary has chosen "doomscrolling" and "rona" as its words of the year. The Australian National Dictionary chose "iso". Is "quazza" too far?
The American Dialect Society chose ‘they’ as its ‘Word of the Decade.’
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'Milkshake duck', a word created in 2016 on Twitter, is the Macquarie Dictionary Word of the Year. Efforts to coin new words have a long history and were particularly in vogue in the 1980s.
The Macquarie Dictionary last week named “mansplain” its word of the year for 2014. The Dictionary defines mansplain as: verb (t) Colloquial (humorous) (of a man) to explain (something) to a woman, in…
You’re twice as likely to chat about vaping than you were in 2013.
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Selfies were so 2013. But vaping’s in: Oxford Dictionaries have announced vape as its international Word of the Year 2014. The runners up are bae, budtender, contactless, indyref, normcore and slacktivism…
Tech-influenced terms such as “infovore” are in popular usage. Does that mean the English language is going to the dogs?
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Each year the Macquarie Dictionary names a Word of the Year from a shortlist of words that have made a valuable contribution to the language. And it has declared 2013 to be the year … of … the … “infovore…