The publishing director, Dan O’Keefe, had gone through the pages just before the dictionary went to print, looking for running heads (those bold guide words at the top of each page) that could be offensive to more delicate readers. After all, this was a fully descriptive dictionary, containing the gamut of Australian English. The vice-chancellor of Macquarie University, Professor Edwin Webb (below left), made a short speech before asthmatically fleeing into the night, away from the wattle, to which he was highly allergic.Ĭopies of the new dictionary were pored over, favourite Australianisms were looked up, cries of 'It’s in!' were heard throughout the evening. A green and gold cocktail was invented for the occasion (see recipe below), the room was festooned with wattle, and eminent historian, Manning Clark, carried out the launching honours. If you like Word for Word, leave us a review on Apple Podcasts! It only takes a minute and it helps other people discover the show.įorty years ago, on 21 September 1981, the first edition of Australia’s national dictionary, the Macquarie Dictionary, was launched.
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Music used in this episode is by Broke For Free, available from the Free Music Archive and used by permission of the artist. Find more music by Broke for Free including The Gold Lining and If.Īll sound effects and clips are public domain, royalty-free, or used by permission. Word for Word is produced by Macmillan Audio Australia for Macquarie Dictionary and Pan Macmillan Australia. Word for Word episode #37 Word of the Year 2020 Word for Word episode #29 Word of the Year 2019 Subscribe now on iTunes, Soundcloud, Stitcher, Spotify, Amazon or your favourite podcast app to get the latest episode delivered direct to your inbox. You can also explore the 'additional links' below to discover what new words and definitions have been on our editor's minds in recent months. Join us as we explore our language: the ways we use it, the ways we abuse it, and the ways we ultimately change it. In this, the final episode of season 6, we join the Word of the Year Committee to discuss which word was crowned the Macquarie Dictionary Word of the Year 2021, the selection process and other words from the short list. Over to you – do you think any of these words should be in the Macquarie Dictionary? Let’s round things out with two new colloquialisms: graff, a shortening of graffiti, and swerve, a transitive verb meaning ‘to avoid or ignore’, as in ‘I think he’s swerving me’. You may have heard of huge spillback outbreaks of COVID-19 in mink farms overseas, for example. But now that it’s been spreading far and wide in the community, we face the risk of spillback: humans infecting other species with the disease. When COVID-19 jumped from animals to humans, it was an instance of spillover. You’d be right to guess that it’s a play on debunking, but did you know that the bunk in debunk is a shortening of bunkum? And that bunkum itself, meaning ‘insincere talk’, was coined after a member of the US House of Representatives made an infamously tedious and irrelevant speech in 1820 on behalf of his constituents in Buncombe County, North Carolina? It’s quite the derivation!Īnother contender is spillback. Next up is prebunking, the practice of addressing false information before it is published.
We’re unsure why goblins have been made the face of what is quintessentially human behaviour, though… It is apparently epitomised by the cat in this video. Up first is a new word from the internet that has already been circulating in the media: goblin mode, a pattern of behaviour characterised by an embrace of indolence and slovenliness. It’s the start of May, so here’s your monthly helping of new words that may enter the Macquarie Dictionary!
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