Ingrid Piller writes:…
In the year in which I’ve been away from the UAE, the fervor for the use of “Arabian Gulf” instead of “Persian Gulf” has certainly heated up.
December, 2010
A gulf by any other name
New wave linguistic innovation
The Sydney Morning Herald reports that Hugh Lunn thinks young Australians speak unimaginatively. We, he claims in his new book Words Fail Me, don’t use all those wonderful words of old that made Australian English so cute, but use far too many words and phrases from American popular culture. I say “we” here, because I [...]
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Pavlovian response
Piers Kelly writes: …It’s official. The great Aussie meringue dessert we know as a Pavlova, actually originated in New Zealand. Except that none of this is really news.
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