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    With The Ashes in full swing, we thought it was only fair to bowl a few cricket related slang words

The word puppy is intatly associated with cutness and adorability. The word used to describe a young dog is used in day to day slang to describe everything from shallow infatuaton to chubbiness in a child. The word originated in the 15th century from the French word  poupée meaning doll and the word originally meant toy … Read more

So, Australia’s word guru, the woman who has been at the helm (if a dictionary can be said to have a helm) of the Macquarie Dictionary for decades, the arbiter of word taste: what would you guess she would name as her inspirational books? You’re right: she does: here’s the list… Universal Etymological English Dictionary compiled … Read more