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Macquarie Dictionary names 'enshittification' as 2024 Word of the Year. But what does it mean?

ABC

"Enshittification" — the gradual deterioration of a service of product — has been named the 2024 Word of the Year by Macquarie Dictionary. Last year, "cozzie livs" — a light-hearted play on the term "cost of living" — was named the Word of the Year by Macquarie Dictionary. The Australian National Dictionary Centre, based at the Australian National University, picked …

Way Word Coles Dictionary Macquarie 2024 Word Macquarie Dictionary

4 weeks ago

Australia’s Macquarie Dictionary picks ‘enshittification’ as word of 2024

Al Jazeera

Australia’s oldest dictionary of Australian English has chosen “enshittification” – a slang term referring to the deterioration of products and services online – as the word of 2024. “This word captures what many of us feel is happening to the world and to so many aspects of our lives at the moment,” the dictionary’s judging committee said in a statement …

Dictionary Macquarie Dictionary

1 year, 1 month ago

Bazball included in dictionary? Labuschagne shreds the move into pieces by labelling it 'garbage' - WATCH

India TV News

Bazball, it seems is not leaving the cricket grapevine anytime soon with it becoming legit after its induction to the Collins Dictionary. In the dictionary, Bazball is described as "A test cricket style where the batting side aims to seize the initiative by playing in an exceptionally aggressive manner." Australia, who levelled 2-2 against England in the away Ashes series …

England Bazball Dictionary

1 year, 2 months ago

Before Wikipedia, there was the Oxford English Dictionary, a Victorian era crowdsourcing project

Salon

After graduate school, I treated myself to a full set — that's 20 very large and heavy volumes — of the Oxford English Dictionary for my home office. Now that I've read Sarah Ogilvie's surprising and delightful new book "The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary," I can imagine James Murray, the venerable Dictionary editor, …

English Words Computer Science Project Think Wikipedia Know

1 year, 8 months ago

Bestselling author Pip Williams returns with The Bookbinder of Jericho, a companion novel to her hit The Dictionary of Lost Words

ABC

Australian author Pip Williams was researching the history of the Oxford University Press in 2019 when she came across a photo that ignited her curiosity. Williams' latest novel revolves around Sisters Peggy and Maude Jones, "bindery girls" who hail from Jericho, a historically working-class suburb of Oxford. "She would love to go to Oxford University, but she's been told as …

Women Words Books University Work Working Class Book

2 years ago

Bachelor’s Handbag, a roast chicken takeaway makes it to Australian lexicon as ‘Word of the Year’

Firstpost

The origin of the word stems from the fact that such a chicken requires no further preparation or cooking before consumption, so it is in fact an easy meal preferred by a single person. The roast chicken meal often comes wrapped in a plastic bag with a handle with which one can carry it home New Delhi: A roast chicken …

Chicken Handbag Takeaway Makes

2 years ago

Explained: The meaning of 'Bachelor's handbag,' the Australian dictionary's people's word of the year

Firstpost

Bachelor’s handbag — a roast chicken takeaway in a plastic bag — has been voted the Australian people’s choice as the new word of the year, the Macquarie Dictionary said. The term was defined as a ‘noun colloquial a takeaway roast chicken’ by the Australian English dictionary Sydney: Bachelor’s handbag — a roast chicken takeaway in a plastic bag — …

English Word Chicken Australian Bachelor Dictionary Macquarie Dictionary

2 years, 5 months ago

These are the Aussie foods set to be added to the Oxford dictionary

Daily Mail

Academics are calling for the Oxford dictionary to include Aussie food slang like HSP, parma and potato gems in new editions. Academics are calling for the Oxford dictionary to include Aussie food slang like HSP, parma and potato gems in new editions ANDC director and chief editor of the Australian National Dictionary, Dr Amanda Laugesen said with the 21st century …

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