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 ...

Rob Pensalfini is a Senior Lecturer in Linguistics and Drama at the University of Queensland. I recently read an article bemoaning the “decline” of Australian slang, pointing out that the latest ...

and then the moment you arrive in Australia, suddenly you don’t? Hi, I’m Dr. Howie Manns. I study language and the way people use it. I grew up in the US, so I thought I knew English really well. But ...

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 ...

(CNN) — 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 ...