National Dictionary goes stright to PM’s ’pool room’

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has accepted a specially bound set of the new edition of the Australian National Dictionary, the primary repository of Australian English . The Dictionary was presented as a 'gift to the nation' at the Prime Minister's Parliament House office. The Australian National Dictionary Centre at ANU compiled the Dictionary, which was published by Oxford University Press Australia and New Zealand. The Dictionary has been 28 years in the making with the first edition published in 1988. The second edition includes more than 6,000 new words, including words from more than 100 Indigenous languages. New words and phrases include Sorry Day, trackie daks, schmick, chardy, straight to the pool room, mugachino, firie, rello, Welcome to Country, bunji (a mate), yidaki (didgeridoo), drop bear, shirtfront and not happy Jan. There are more than 16,000 Australian words and phrases in the new Dictionary.
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