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Kris Kringles and yuletide jingles: unboxing the wonders of Christmas lingo
Image: Shutterstock“Kondo-ing” (de-cluttering) has become all the rage. But languages are hoarders that hang onto every used bit of clothing, threadbare cushion or musty old piece...
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From ‘arse-ropes’ to ‘flying venom’, a history of how we have come to talk about viruses and medicine
Wes Mountain/The Conversation, CC BY-ND
Symptom, virus, epidemic, quarantine.We’ve become used to these terms in 2020. But the “COVID-19 vocabulary” might have been very different had it not...
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What’s in a name? Well, quite a bit if your name is Karen (or Jack, John, Jeff, Dolly, Biddy, Meg …)
Graphic: Wes Mountain/The Conversation
Things are really jeffed up for Karens right now. The Miley (“coronavirus”) did a Melba (“made yet another a comeback”),...
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‘Iso’, ‘boomer remover’ and ‘quarantini’: how coronavirus is changing our language
Wes Mountain/The Conversation
People love creating words — in times of crisis it’s a “sick” (in the good sense) way of pulling through.From childhood, our “linguistic...
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How Australians talk about tucker is a story that’ll make you want to eat the bum out of an elephant
Drawing by Wes Mountain/The Conversation
Not to put a damper on things, but Australian food hasn’t always made us happy little Vegemites.One needn’t look further than the...
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