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 ...

TV's fifth NCIS series is the first one with an international setting. Let's see if we can't help you proactively navigate the "language" barrier, as NCIS: Sydney continues to unspool Season 2 on CBS.

If slang is the people’s poetry, then Australia lost a poet last week. Barry Humphries breathed life into Australia’s “slanguage” – but it was often an imagined life. When it comes to their lexicon, ...

I know there's got to be a few aussies on here, so I thought I might just ask. Don't ask me how I started thinking about this, but I'd like to know the real word origins of some cliche'd australian ...

You’re in a conversation with someone younger than you, maybe a patient, a student, someone you follow online, or your own child, and suddenly the sentence stops making sense. “That movie was mid.” “I ...

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 the ...

Australians have long prided themselves on putting their own twist on the English language. Across the English-speaking world, they’ve become famous for their penchant for shortening words like ...