Dialect, slang and jargon

Die Umgangssprache hielt fest, was die Erfahrungen der ersten Nachkriegsjahre mit sich brachten: die Zeit des Kalten Krieges in der Politik, alltäglich Belangvolles wie Liebe, Arbeit, Familie und Geld.

Have you ever wondered where terms like 'end of your tether', 'gets my goat' or 'letting ones hair down' come from?

We use them every day, some of us more than others.

The Great Patriotic War (GPW) of the Soviet people against Nazi Germany, known in the West as the Eastern Front of WWII, continues to attract a number of military historians from different countries around the world.

An entertaining book detailing the military slang of World War II.

An entertaining book detailing the military slang of World War II.

'He's 100% political herpes.

The Great Patriotic War (GPW) of the Soviet people against Nazi Germany, known in the West as the Eastern Front of WWII, continues to attract a number of military historians from different countries around the world.

The Godzone Dictionary is a concise A - Z of the words and phrases that make our New Zealand language so distinctive and individual, from Aotearoa and Avondale spiders to Zambuck and Zespri.

What Australian say - and what they really mean.

Doublespeak is the language of non-responsibility, carefully constructed to appear to communicate when it fact it doesn't.

Epic is dialectally mixed but Ionic at its core.