If you're one of those people who likes following election campaigns, there are certain words and phrases you'd be fairly familiar with by now.
Campaigns tend to have themes — this year, Labor has eagerly been accusing Scott Morrison of "going missing" on key issues, and the Liberal Party has pounced on the moment Anthony Albanese forgot what the unemployment rate was.
But littered amongst these recurring motifs are other ideas and words that make up the mosaic of this six-week carnival of candidates.
The experts know their meaning, but many of us may be using them without understanding the history of the phrases.
A good thing becomes bad
In recent years, accusations of "pork-barrelling" have thrown the Morrison Government into hot water.
It's a funny-sounding phrase that now refers to when a political party finds ways to ensure funding goes to the people of electorates held by its own candidates.
But according to researcher Mark Gwynn of the Australian National Dictionary Centre, it originally represented something positive.
"It was literally a barrel where salt and pork was kept," Mr Gwynn said.
"It became seen as a place, a resource, a sense of, you know, 'this is my wealth, this is where I get my food from'.
"And in the 19th century, this slowly was used as not only a positive thing, but a negative thing — that it was where you could use the funds ... to continue to use it in the electorate or to use it to get you elected, basically to get you re-elected.
"I suppose it was seen as a positive for the people that you are providing money to, but in the case of the national funds, a lot of people missed out."
Some words come and go, others stay
Another linguistic trope is the use of "the pub test", which Mr Gwynn said was often rolled out during campaigns to signify when an idea or statement didn't sound fair to the average person.
While there is evidence of its use in the United Kingdom, he said it was used more frequently in Australia, where the concept of an honest, "fair-dinkum" candidate carried a bit more weight.
"John Howard actually used to use it quite a bit in the 1990s," he said.
Other words have had a more lasting impact, and are now commonplace in the world of politics.
The use of the word candidate, to refer to those up for re-election, dates back to the earliest days of democracy itself, when it was used by the ancient Greeks.
According to Kate Burridge and Howard Manns of Monash University, "candidate" is a relative of the word "frank", and has its origin in the Latin word candidus, meaning "pure white, glistening", in reference to the white togas worn by those seeking a place in parliament.
It was meant to represent the apparent purity of those seeking office, who would work untarnished by bias.
Time will tell whether new words will stick
Linguists may be experts in language, but even they cannot predict what will become everyday parlance and what will not.
One we can proudly claim as Australian is "democracy sausage", which emerged about 10 years ago when polling stations started adding a sausage sizzle for the benefit of voters.
And it stuck.
Years later, it's still a fundamental part of the election day process, and even vegetarian and vegan options are on the menus nowadays.
Then there's what's known as a "donkey vote" — where a voter selects their preferred candidates in the order they appear on the ballot. Mr Gwynn said this was most likely linked to the fact that donkeys had a long history of being considered stupid animals.
Mr Gwynn said the linguistic landscape of the latest electoral season was always changing. One of the newer phrases to appear has been "teal independents", to describe a number of candidates who have appeared on ballots, posing a threat to seats long held by Liberal MPs.
"So that's been used of these particular independents in some of these seats, and they're mostly women, and they're running on a climate change policy amongst other things against some of the sitting Liberal members, so that's an interesting one to keep an eye on," he said.
Mr Gwynn said we could expect to hear more terms such as "rorts" and "fair go" as the campaign rolled on.
"Both sides of politics like to claim that the other side is using rorts — that's an Australian term for a fraudulent act and that goes back to the 1940s," he said.
And whether anyone will bring out "fair shake of the sauce bottle" this time around — in perhaps a fond nod to former prime minister Kevin Rudd — remains to be seen.
