‘No worries’: how America came to banish Australia’s go-to phrase
by Ann Ding from on (#5TMBK)
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.
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