And, over time, Aussie slang has ... editor of the Australian National Dictionary, through the Australian National University (ANU) tells CNN Travel many Aussie expressions have roots in British ...

Prepositions spell the difference. Beyond Australia, you either root for – or root out. You don’t root full-stop. Even in ...

The Ducks later did a Harold Holt (“bolt”) and left the US — they also may have left a word or two, and the label “Australian slang”. Regardless, the Australian-ness of US rhyming slang ...

"Australian slang really seems to have built up a head of steam in the late 19th Century," says Tony Thorne, linguist at Kings College London and author of the Dictionary of Contemporary Slang.