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Gen Z cops the flak for making lower-case language a trend via text-speak. But they’re not the first.

be an anti-capitalist: here’s the case for going full lower-case

Gen Z cops the flak for making lower-case language a trend. But they’re not the first.

  • David Astle

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Chris Minns spoke about the operation on Wednesday.

What he says and what he Minns: Deciphering the premier’s sport-speak

No one loves a sporting metaphor like NSW Premier Chris Minns.

  • David Astle
For better or worse, there’s wiggle room in our squiggles.

Quip, elevate, waffle: Verbs are doing strange things right now

This year my inbox has copped a dozen emails from readers either addled or miffed about certain verbs.

  • David Astle
A publisher from Simon & Schuster has banned the book blurb.

Down with ‘unputdownable’: Is there a case for boycotting book blurbs?

A publisher from Simon & Schuster has banned the blurb. Personally, I’m torn.

  • David Astle
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Providing the providers with support

And that moment when you realise your shoe polish will outlive you.

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You talkin’ to Kiwi?

Buff on this!

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Updated product lacks polish

We didn’t even know the kiwi was threatened.

Baby hippo Moo Deng plays with a zookeeper in the Khao Kheow Open Zoo in Chonburi province, Thailand.

‘Bouncy pork’ and ‘clown bus’: The new words that went viral overseas

Before 2025 gets too old, let’s see the alternative coinages that captured the global year that was.

  • David Astle
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Kitchen counterfeiters overstay their welcome

Time to quit mocking about.

Amid Trump, Musk and the new broligarchy, “bro” is shaping as the prefix of the moment.

The latest nightmare of Trump 2.0? Our new brocabulary

Amid the US president’s new broligarchy, “bro” is shaping as the prefix of the moment.

  • David Astle

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