macquarie 
We are always on the lookout for new, emerging and interesting words to add to the Macquarie Dictionary. In a time of global instant communication, these words are popping up faster and in vaster quantities than ever before. Read more…
Spare a thought for the words that disappear from use because the thing they represent becomes outmoded. Read more…
Recently we discovered that some of us used the little word quite in quite different ways. Some of us were quite devastated by this. Read more…
The spelling gaol was the accepted spelling in Australian English until the 1990s… Read more…
The phrase fit as a fiddle dates back to the 1600s in British English, but had a slightly different meaning then. Read more…
A bit of research revealed to me that far-flung instead of far-fetched was gaining in frequency. Read more…
Crunching words together to make a new coinage has been a popular pastime in the English language since the nineteenth century… Read more…
There is so much symbolism surrounding the festival of Easter that it is hard to unpick. Read more…
Just as we love our antique bric-a-brac, so too do we love our antique words. We pick up an object, speculate on its purpose in life, admire its shape and colour even if we have no idea where it came from and what it is supposed to do. Read more…
