How do we explain the general homogeneity of the Australian accent (almost no variation in a country 30 times the size of Britain)? What is Australian English, anyway? (Is it more than just the accent?) This post explores these questions, and influences on Australian English—from colonial times to present day.
All I do is keep the beat and bad company—Mark Knopfler This is an a example of syllepsis, a fun rhetorical device...
In 1993, I was in Year 10. I had pretty much worked out who I was, and what I wanted to be.
Here's a song I wrote. This is ukulele hip hop like you've never heard before... Which shouldn't be too hard. Copyright Rory Daly 2015
I'm about to update the theme. This sounds scary.
Definition: Smelling of horse urine—a wonderfully specific word that lends itself to many uses.
The little Renault doesn’t have this tag, so when I found myself in the wrong lane a few weeks back, I went over a toll bridge (maybe 400 metres of toll road), and thought, ‘they’ll send me a bill’. Today they did.
After a short period where previous comments were obliterated, we now return to service with our new commenting system, Disqus, enabled, with all previous comments reinstated.
A noun is a thing, like an apple or regret. If we talk about a red apple or a great regret, both ‘red’ and ‘great’ are adjectives. So what’s an adverb?
There’s this thing called the WCAG: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. They set out all the good things you need to do to make your content accessible for people with disability, people including those with vision impairment (an estimated 300,000 in Australia alone), and also people with other kinds of disability, such as cognitive or motor [...]
