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Australian English
Australian English is an odd mix of different influences. As I’ve mentioned in previous articles, some Australian words, particularly those for our unique wildlife, come from our First Nations people - words like koala and kangaroo.
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English: The Driftwood Language Part 4
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Here we are at the juiciest and final category: words that drifted in pronunciation and meaning. The double drifters. The true rebels of English.
Think of them as the rockstars of etymology—unpredictable, chaotic, and probab...
English: The Driftwood Language Part 3
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Last time we looked at words whose sounds got lazy. Today we’re going deeper: words whose meanings packed their bags and moved to a different neighbourhood entirely. These are the words that started life with one respectable...
English: The Driftwood Language Part 2
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Welcome back to the Great Compound Drift!
In the last post, I introduced you to the idea that English words, especially compounds, are wanderers by nature. Sometimes the meaning shifts, sometimes the pronunciation shifts, an...
English: The Driftwood Language Part 1
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A 12 year-old student of mine recently asked me why the word cupboard was so weird. “It’s cubbard,” he said. “Did you accidentally put a ‘p’ in it?”
I proceeded to explain that the cupboard was originally just a board for c...
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