(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 ...

Carn, spew, and goon are some of the colloquialisms added to the Australian edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. Carla Mascarenhas is the NSW correspondent covering breaking news, state politics ...

BOGANS. This endearing Australian colloquial term has made it into the latest edition of the Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang. Petrolhead, believed to have been coined in the 1980s as an adaptation ...

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 ...

Carn, spew, and goon are some of the colloquialisms added to the Australian edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. Carla Mascarenhas is a journalist with Explore Travel and The Senior. She ...