Kel Richards

Are you seeing your mates this arvo because it's been yonks? Do you shout ave a go, ya mug to your football team from the stands? Or tell your mate his team has got Buckley's chance of winning the AFL Grand Final? Do you mutter stone the crows when surprised? Perhaps you've got your wobbly boots on? Aussie English may...

The English language arrived in Australia with the first motley bunch of European settlers on 26 January 1788. Today, there is clearly a distinctive Australian regional dialect with its own place among the global family of 'Englishes'. How did this come about? Where did the distinctive pattern, accent, and verbal inventions that make up Aussie English come from? A lively...