Australian Writers’ Centre – Writing Courses
3 days ago · Australian Writers’ Centre. We’re Australia’s leading provider of writing courses and we’re so excited that you’ve found us! Whether you’d like to improve your skills, discover a new career, or simply find your creative community, this is the ultimate place to pursue your writing passion. People love our online writing courses ...
Q&A: Brekky or breaky or brekkie? A delicious dilemma.
A: So, that leads us to “brekky” or “brekkie”. And while we’re partial to the first one (it’s shorter and less fussy), either of these is fine. Two of Australia’s largest fast food chains have breakfast menus, and one offers a “brekkie wrap” and the other a “brekky wrap”. Q: But not after 10.30am.
Furious Fiction - Australian Writers' Centre
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Online courses - Australian Writers' Centre
Online Writing Courses. If you can read this webpage, then you have all you need to access our range of online courses at the Australian Writers’ Centre! We offer three kinds of online course: Online classroom. These courses begin on a set date, with an online tutor and other classmates learning at the same time. Online self-paced.
Q&A: The origin of ‘vale’ - Australian Writers' Centre
Oct 18, 2023 · A: Yes, so the “vale” YOU are referring to actually rhymes more with “parlay” and comes from the Latin root word, valere, meaning to “be well, be strong”. In Latin times, it was used as a way to say “goodbye”, much like you might say to someone “travel safe” or “go well” etc. Q: Oh, yeah, I suppose we do say that.
Q&A: Program vs programme - Australian Writers' Centre
A: Sure. First let’s get some context. The word “program” comes from Latin and Greek “programma” – meaning “public notice in writing”. And when it first debuted in English during the 1600s, everyone was spelling it “program”. It wasn’t until the 1800s that the UK started its love affair with French words and switched its ...
Q&A: Roofs or rooves? Hoofs or hooves? - Australian Writers' Centre
Jun 12, 2019 · Q: Ugh, of course they aren't. A: Just like roof, “hoof” also started with two plural forms – “hoofs” and “hooves”. And just like roof, “hoofs” WAS the dominant one. But “hooves” woke up in the 20th century and by about 1970, it overtook “hoofs” …
Q&A: Mould vs mold - Australian Writers' Centre
Q&A: Mould vs mold. Dean Koorey. June 28, 2017. Each week here at the Australian Writers’ Centre, we dissect and discuss, contort and retort, ask and gasp at the English language and all its rules, regulations and ridiculousness. It’s a celebration of language, masquerading as a passive-aggressive whinge about words and weirdness.
Q&A: Why is it called a ‘dunny’? - Australian Writers' Centre
Nov 7, 2018 · Q: Yes please! Lay it on me… so to speak. A: It dates from the early 1800s, Scottish in origin, from dung + ken (house) to give “dunnekin” as another name for the outhouse. Once the toilet moved inside, Australians and New Zealanders dropped the kin and kept with the dunny. Q: Well, that was a crappy description.
Q&A: Jail or Gaol – which is it? | Australian Writers' Centre
A: Both are accepted – but “jail” is preferred. It admits that “in general, the spelling of this word has shifted in Australian English from gaol to jail”. However, it goes on to add that, “gaol remains fossilised in the names of jails, as Parramatta Gaol, and in some government usage”. Q: Yes, I guess some of those stone walls ...