Ligers and tigons and grolar bears, oh my!
The grolar bear was added to the dictionary in 2015, and before you ask, no, we didn’t make it up. Read more…
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Are you prepped enough for doomsday?
Doomsday, Judgement Day, or the Apocalypse, whatever you want to call it, the strategy of being prepared for an unknown disaster is now becoming more and more a reality for some people. As I was flipping through the channels on TV the other night, I happened across an American reality show – Doomsday Preppers, profiling … Read more
Should these words go in the Macquarie Dictionary?
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…
Our favourite invented portmanteaus from members of the Australian Writers’ Centre
The Australian Writers’ Centre recently held a competition asking for the best invented portmanteau. They awarded their winners, but we’ve trawled through the entries and found some favourites of our own. Read more…
Buttercups or blogs?
Oxford University Press, in revising the headword list of their Junior Dictionary, gave rise to a discussion in the British press… Read more…
Should these words go in the Macquarie Dictionary?
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…
Words that disappear
Spare a thought for the words that disappear from use because the thing they represent becomes outmoded. Read more…
Quite the change
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…
Jail vs Gaol
The spelling gaol was the accepted spelling in Australian English until the 1990s… Read more…