Radio Australia Today Editorial

The Word is the Word

25 June 2008

A couple of weeks ago I had a brilliant idea. They don’t happen often, so I have to act on them when they do.

I thought that we should have a word of the day on the Breakfast Club.

It would be a difficult word, and we could ask our audience to give us a definition. The funniest definition (not necessarily the correct one) would win a prize.

Well I’ve got to tell you, the emails and SMSs have been going hot with people throwing us definitions, and some of them have been hilarious. Like when we put out the word: umbrage. One wag suggested ‘umbrage’ was a bridge you hid under in the rain (umbrella-bridge’. Get it?) He won the prize.

We do the word at 0030 GMT (0730 in Cambodia and Jakarta), and we reveal the real definition and the winning answer an hour later.

Our email address, by the way is breakfastclub@radioaustralia.net.au

So why not have a guess. You have nothing to lose, and a CD to win.

Good luck.

– Phil