Nicknames for Australian Place Names Appeal
From Freo to the Gong: National Dictionary Centre on the lookout for town nicknames. It’s no secret Australians love a good nickname. We create them for our close friends, our most senior…
Centre for Classical Studies Head to DC to Further Research into Mapping Greek Myths
Students and staff from the ANU Centre for Classical Studies recently spent a week in Washington, DC to further research into a project that will digitally map stories in Greek Mythology. The trip…
The Canberra Corpus Collective
Catherine Travis, Ksenia Gnevsheva, James Grama and Simón González organised a sociophonetics workshop 16-19 July 2019, to explore questions related to frequency, grammatical words and vowel…
Ethnolectal variation in Australian English diphthongs
In July, Sydney Speaks presented papers at the International Conference on Language Variation in Europe, ICLaVE|10 (Leeuwarden, Holland) and the International Conference on Historical Linguistics,…
Ms Elizabeth Ellis Receives Honorary Doctorate
Ms Elizabeth Marrkilyi Warnngupayi Ellis received her Honorary Doctorate this past Friday, the 19th of July. The award was given "on the grounds of her exceptional contribution to the study…
Dr Julieanne Lamond launches "Australian Common Reader" database
Dr Julieanne Lamond launched the "Australian Common Reader" database last week. The database, which Lamond manages, tracks "the borrowing habits of mostly working-class Australians between 1861…
Dr Bonzel interviewed for debut show of new CASS podcast
'Better Things' the brand new podcast, an initiative run by the ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, aired its debut episode this past Monday. To kick off the series the shows producer…