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Month: January 2017

  • Oxford Word of the Month: January – turbo chook

    noun: a jocular name for the Tasmanian native hen, Tribonyx mortierii. THE STORY BEHIND THE WORD OF THE MONTH The Tasmanian native hen is a flightless moorhen endemic to the island of Tasmania. Although it is unrelated to the domestic hen, it was named a ‘native hen’ by the early European settlers, who applied the…