Yes, I remember the first time I heard the word ‘bogan’. It was 1987.

I also remember the use of ‘bog’, used in a witty epigram written on a bus shelter.

be a bog
not a surf
swing a chain
not a purse

And now ‘bogan’ is in the Oxford English Dictionary.

I did make one error. I conflated the Oxford English Dictionary with the Oxford Dictionaries Online. That matters a bit.

My favourite part of this podcast was calming Stacy down. You can hear his exasperation at the new trendy words! And I think that is an attitude that a lot of people share. A lot of the articles about the Oxford English Dictionary use phrases like ‘hallowed bastion’ and so forth, but why should we expect a hoity-toity tone from it? It’s language as used by all of us.

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