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- NewsRadio WordWatcher Kel Richards reports on the ABC Word of the Year 2008 (audio)
With the help of votes collated from listeners to ABC Local Radio, Kel announces the ABC's (entirely unofficial) “Words of the Year” in three categories: World Word of the Year, the Aussie Word of the Year, and the Banned Word of the Year (the one we’d banished, never to be heard again)
published: 31/12/2008 (Word Watch) - 14:45 - Jargonaut to become a dictionary word? Meh! I wouldn't wish that on a Frenemy! (audio)
Kel Richards tells Fiona Ellis-Jones about the latest additions to the Collins English Dictionary
published: 02/01/2009 (Neologisms, Dictionaries) - Northern Territory Government under fire for cutbacks in the teaching of indigenous languages in schools (audio)
Steve Chase asks national Race Discrmination Commissioner, Tom Calma about the problems with the policy change
published: 09/12/2008 (Indigenous, Northern Territory) - 'Ugly girls welcome in Mt Isa' comment wins Sexist Comment of the Year award ... (audio)
John Barron talks to Meredith Burgman, founder of the Ernies ...
published: 21/11/2008 (Sexism)
