An Australian woman living and working the US as a submarine co-pilot has listed the slang words and abbreviations she uses frequently that Americans don't understand. Brittany Nash is from ...

Your ultimate guide to the origins of our unique words and phrases. Think you know your Australian slang? You may have been barking up the wrong tree for donkey’s years. An Art Union is like a lottery ...

Although much of Aussie English's robust character depends on being colloquial, it's not all slang. The Australian National Dictionary records 10,000 additions to the word family of Englishes.

From 'uni' to 'barbie' to 'hurl', there are a great number of words used in English around the world that have their origins in Australia. Watch this short video to get a glimpse of how much ...

A recent survey has revealed what folks reckon are the most popular and annoying Aussie slang words, and this is sooky la la erasure.

The Lucky Country is well-known for its unique turns of phrase. But few realise how many terms in use around the world originated down under, writes Mark Gwynn.

Far from it – Australian slang has influenced the English language around the world, just as Australian culture has been transported to the world by comedians such as Barry Humphries, TV shows ...

Generally, such words are reserved for when you are wrestling large wild reptiles on your way to work, or deliberately trying to reinforce the fact that you are Australian - in which case you are ...

THE AUSTRALIAN attachment to slanguage (slang language) goes back to the earliest settlements of English speakers in Australia. As Edward Gibbon Wakefield noted in his 1829 Letter from Sydney: The ...