Tamara Auer :: Feeds
January 25, 2010
Tue 09:25 - Is the typical Aussie accent changing? Even dying? A new website examines that issue ... (audio)
Laura Tchilinguirian asks Felicity Cox, from Macquarie University
October 25, 2009
14:15 - Market Mavens, Statement Eyelashes ... what's new in the world of words? We ask lexicographer Susan Butler .. (audio)
Ben McLean is speaking with the editor of the latest Macquarie dictionary
June 11, 2009
10:15 - Crikey! Is our Aussie lingo really cringeworth? That's what new research suggests ... (audio)
Mark McCrindle, social researcher from McCrindle Research, is wit Fiona Ellis-Jones
January 1, 2009
14:45 - Jargonaut to become a dictionary word? Meh! I wouldn't wish that on a Frenemy! (audio)
Kel Richards tells Fiona Ellis-Jones about the latest additions to the Collins English Dictionary
December 31, 2008
NewsRadio WordWatcher Kel Richards reports on the ABC Word of the Year 2008 (audio)
With the help of votes collated from listeners to ABC Local Radio, Kel announces the ABC's (entirely unofficial) “Words of the Year” in three categories: World Word of the Year, the Aussie Word of the Year, and the Banned Word of the Year (the one we’d banished, never to be heard again)
December 9, 2008
Northern Territory Government under fire for cutbacks in the teaching of indigenous languages in schools (audio)
Steve Chase asks national Race Discrmination Commissioner, Tom Calma about the problems with the policy change
November 20, 2008
'Ugly girls welcome in Mt Isa' comment wins Sexist Comment of the Year award ... (audio)
John Barron talks to Meredith Burgman, founder of the Ernies ...
October 6, 2008
Language expert tips the broad Aussie accent will disappear within a few decades... (audio)
Bruce Moore talks to Steve Chase about his book titled "Speaking Our Language: The Story Of Australian English"
October 2, 2008
Linguistics professor says it takes several generations to revive a language and many indigenous languages are at risk of being lost (audio)
Jeannie Bell from the Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education at Batchelor tells Kel Richards says there are less than 40 indigenous languages surviving
May 20, 2008
Yet another award for one of Australia's most prolific writers (audio)
Ben Mclean talks with Thomas Keneally about life, writing, and rugby league dreams...
February 28, 2008
Extra day and leap year have special name: "bissextile" (audio)
Kel Richards, NewsRadio's own WordWatcher explains the meaning
February 3, 2008
Pod Slurping and Password Fatigue - neologisms for a new age! (audio)
Kel Richards hears about the Words of the Year from Macquarie Dictionary publisher Susan Butler
January 10, 2008
Australia's Macquarie Dictionary is currently in the process of choosing a Word of the Year -- and they want YOUR help. (audio)
Kel Richards hears how, from Editor Sue Butler
Voting underway for the Macquarie Dictionary Word of the Year 2007
The categories are: Business; Carbon Terms; Colloquialisms; Eating and Drinking; The Environment; Fashion; General Interest; Health; Media; Music; Online; Politics; Social; Scene; Specialist; Terms; Sport; Technology; Travel.
December 25, 2007
What's the ABC's Word of the year? The envelope please .... (audio)
Kel Richards looks at the words we loved - and loathed - in 2007
December 12, 2007
w00t! Locavore makes it onto the top words list! (audio)
Doctor Bruce Moore, from the Australian National Dictionary Centre, outlines the rival 'Word of the year' lists to Sandy Aloisi
January 3, 2007
June 2, 2006
November 23, 2005
Language Monitor
The Top Ten Politically incorrect words of 2005
November 8, 2005
Language Monitor
The Top Ten Politically incorrect words of 2005
