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Australian word of the year? Iso agree
It went from obscurity to saturating daily conversation in a matter of months, and now iso has been recognised as The Australian National Dictionary Centre’s Word of the Year.
“Isolation” was rarely used often enough to warrant abbreviation prior to the COVID outbreak, but as more and more of us went into iso, attempted iso haircuts or tried iso workouts, the two syllable option became a mainstay of everyday speech.
The centre chose the “typically Aussie” word from a long list of…
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