The road to becoming a champion speller is made easier with support from family and friends, but ultimately it depends on an individual student’s commitment to learning, a scholar writes.
Warlpiri Dictionary contributors.
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The Warlpiri Dictionary has been 60 years in the making – and it’s shortlisted for the 2023 Australian Book Industry Awards, a rarity for a dictionary.
The coronavirus forced the editors of the Oxford English Dictionary to break with tradition.
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Updates to the Oxford English Dictionary provide a fascinating glimpse into how language changes in the face of rapid and unprecedented social and economic disruption.
It’s a simple word with a strange history.
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‘Milkshake duck’, a word created in 2016 on Twitter, is the Macquarie Dictionary Word of the Year. Efforts to coin new words have a long history and were particularly in vogue in the 1980s.
The Oxford English Dictionary overflows with words that have been created (most during the 1800s) to tilt at governments of various sorts.