US university puts Australianism in the linguistic naughty corner, but is it all a cultural misunderstanding?
A list of “banished words”, published annually by Michigan’s Lake Superior State University, has this year included the unmistakably Australian “no worries”.
LSSU’s tongue-in-cheek list has been compiled every year since 1976 from submissions on terms deemed “familiar but problematic”. This year’s list also includes, among others, “asking for a friend”, “circle back” and “wait, what?” for elimination.
Continue reading...source https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/jan/04/no-worries-how-america-came-to-banish-australias-go-to-phrase
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