New York Times Quizzes Readers on Australian Slang
The second edition of the Australian National Dictionary was released Tuesday.
In the spring of 2015, “dry as a dead dingo’s donger” was among the expressions that helped the Twitter hashtag #AussieSayings trend. A year later, it’s part of the second edition of the Australian National Dictionary.
The Oxford University Press Australia and New Zealand released the tome on Tuesday, 28 years after it first cataloged the origins and history of expressions like trackie daks, marn grook and mugachino. To mark the occasion, The New York Times has put together an interactive quiz.
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