How well do you spell? Better than 13-year-old national champion Zachary Cheng, who can nail ‘astrakhan’ and ‘psephology’? Well, put your spellchecker away and put yourself to the T-E-S-T. The Prime Minister’s Spelling Bee is now open for all schools around Australia and its Try the Bee practise tool canContinue Reading

It was once considered the universal language of the digital age. But teens are ditching emojis for new-age abbreviations, in a welcome return to the art of wordplay. Terms like “LOL” (laugh out loud), “BRB” (be right back), and “OMG” (oh my god) have been part of internet language forContinue Reading