Broadcaster and wordsmith Kel Richards says Australians are “lazy about consonants” and just “blend” them together. The word "'Australia' is not hard, just say the l," he said.

There's a line in a Joan Armatrading song, "You use words like a weapon/You want to cut me down, cut me down ... " The song, to me, is about domestic violence. But that line says more. I thought about ...