Colloquialisms
Language expert Roly Sussex: 'Expect lots more Chinese words in NZ'
10 Jun 2018
Prof Roly Sussex is intrigued by the Kiwi accent, vernacular and vocab and how it's changing. He says we can expert more Chinese words to come into Kiwi English as China becomes a dominant cultural… Audio
Oz words
28 Oct 2009
Last year it was 'climate porn' and 'toxic debt'; this year it's 'besties' and 'boyzillians', just 2 of the 5,000 new words to make the cut in the latest edition of the Macquarie Dictionary. The… Audio