All of youse need to start talking like Dale Andrews, owner of Cafe 63, a diner on 63rd Street in Clearing. When a couple enters his restaurant, he greets them by asking, “How are youse doing?” He ...

Languages serve two masters - identity and intelligibility. Sometimes we use it to highlight who we want the world to think we are. Sometimes, it's more about reaching out to someone else. Mostly, ...

For 30 years Susan Butler has been at the helm of the Macquarie Dictionary. Here she defends the inclusion of a much-derided word I like to joke that, as the editor of the Macquarie Dictionary, I am ...