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When we needed a new word, Twitter gave us 'milkshake duck'

  • Written by Roslyn Petelin, Associate Professor in Writing, The University of Queensland
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What is this milkshake duck that the “whole internet loves”? “A lovely duck that drinks milkshakes”. Had anyone heard this slang term before this week, when the Macquarie Dictionary announced it as their 2017 Word of the Year? Probably not. Unless they move in certain circles on the...

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