Do you know your “yeah, nah” from your “nah, yeah”? Or your “woop woop” from your “wig out”? Australians have long prided themselves on putting their own twist on the English language. Across the ...

Having grown up in Australia, I sometimes take our weird and wonderful lingo for granted. Sure, every culture develops its own unique slang; I thought I had learned Spanish until I turned up in Spain ...

I know there's got to be a few aussies on here, so I thought I might just ask. Don't ask me how I started thinking about this, but I'd like to know the real word origins of some cliche'd australian ...

If slang is the people’s poetry, then Australia lost a poet last week. Barry Humphries breathed life into Australia’s “slanguage” – but it was often an imagined life. When it comes to their lexicon, ...

Readers reflect on the country’s many different accents. By Yan Zhuang The Australia Letter is a weekly newsletter from our Australia bureau. Sign up to get it by email. Last week, I wrote about ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Do you know your “yeah, nah” from your “nah, yeah”? Or your “woop woop” from your “wig out”? Australians have long prided ...

As teens develop slang each generation, parents seem to even need the help of linguists to understand the new terms. Experts say the new terminology appears to cover the same preoccupations. (Scripps ...