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    Mar 22

    A very special episode of our . It's officially the end of an era. Our long-time Editor Sue Butler is putting away her pencil and catalogue cards to retire, after 48 years at Macquarie Dictionary.

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  2. 14 hours ago

    That feeling when you get to a hotel and they have a bum gun instead of toilet paper.

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  3. 16 hours ago

    # is Macquarie Dictionary's Word of the Dayanthropocentric

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  4. 17 hours ago

    Our fine host Kate Sherington is up for Host of the Year in the Australian Podcast Awards and we couldn't be more proud 👏🎙️

    Congratulations to the finalists for the best Host of the Year in the 2018 Australian Podcast Awards! For the full list of finalists in all categories, head to later today!
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    17 hours ago

    Where do you get your protein from? And more importantly, how do you spell it?! The usual 'i comes before e except after c' doesn't apply here, because protein comes from the Greek word proteios, meaning 'primary'.

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  6. Apr 3

    Time for another

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  7. Apr 3

    We say farewell to our esteemed editor Susan Butler in our latest newsletter

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    Apr 2

    "Phubbing" -- a word created by McCann Sydney (for the ) in 2012 to mean the act of insulting someone you are talking to by using your mobile phone -- is now a subject for media + academics:

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  9. Apr 2

    Anyone here from a "one-pub town"? These can be oases on a long drive inland.

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  10. Apr 2

    Come across this one before?

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  11. Apr 1

    Try and use this Word of the Day today

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  12. Apr 1

    The Easter bilby | from the Macquarie Dictionary archive

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  13. Mar 31

    You can sign up to get our Word of the Day delivered here |

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  14. Mar 30

    Surprise! We're back with another bonus episode, featuring some funny, fascinating, unaired tidbits from Season 2. Also, you can vote for us in the ! Voting closes 1st April, so head to this link posthaste:

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  15. Mar 30

    originally meant enlistment or enrolment and didn't include 'compulsory' until just after the French Revolution.

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  16. Mar 30

    Our is

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  17. Mar 29

    Time for the new

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  18. Mar 28

    #21 For the love of words

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  19. Mar 28

    The term malapropism came from the character Mrs Malaprop in the play The Rivals (1775) by Irish dramatist Richard Sheridan.

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  20. Mar 28

    The Word of the Day today is

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  21. Retweeted
    Mar 27

    What idiot called it sign language instead of digital communication?

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