I first wrote about new words and phrases generated by the Covid pandemic in July last year. Hard […]
Category: Language
I have news on the tradie term front. I found a clipping in my files quoting Cassie Lobley […]
In my last column I wondered whether trough pronounced to rhyme with throw was a distinctive Tasmanianism. A […]
In response to my last column on distinctive Tasmanianisms, the editor of this fine publication told me he […]
My father was born and raised in Launceston but moved to work in Melbourne, where he met and […]
This was first published in The New Norfolk News on 5.2.21 Ever since the dawn of the computer […]
It’s that time of year again when dictionaries announce their Word of the Year. Not surprisingly, most of […]
‘Busy as a copper at a mongoose conference’. So said Paddy Crumlin, head of the Maritime Union of […]
Today I speak of humbug, of which we have heard a lot during the pandemic, mostly from politicians. […]
Oh once I dwelt in my comfort zone I didn’t think outside the square. I pushed not at […]