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A WORDY CELEBRATION OF ALL THINGS LEXICAL,
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Tuesday, October 8, 2024

Episode 77: Australian English

Lexicographers at the Oxford English Dictionary dived into Australian English and added dozens of new entries for Australian and Australian Aboriginal words. To talk about the words and what makes Australian English so interesting, That Word Chat has invited back Danica Salazar, Oxford’s executive editor for World Englishes.

We’ll also chat with Celeste Rodríguez Louro, linguist at the University of Western Australia in Perth. Louro served as an OED consultant on Aboriginal words that have become part of the Australian English lexicon. 

Dr. Salazar leads editorial projects for the many varieties of English, and she researches

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Danica Salazar

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Celeste Rodríguez Louro

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and writes world English entries for the OED. She publishes and lectures regularly on lexicography, phraseology, world Englishes, and Spanish- and English-language teaching. Dr. Louro is director of Language Lab, Linguistics discipline chair, and Australian Research Council fellow in Linguistics at the University of Western Australia. Her research deals with standard language ideologies, language contact, and multilingualism.

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We’ll talk about Australians’ proclivity for playful shortenings of words, the borrowing of English words into Aboriginal languages and back into Australian English, and the process of compiling words for the dictionary from a diverse pool of influences.

 

Sign up below for the Zoom link, and then join us at 4:30 p.m. EDT (20:30 UTC, 21:30 British Summer Time, and 4:30 a.m. [sorry] in Perth) on Tuesday, Oct. 8.

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