Aussie Business English

jezweb/aussie-business-english

Australian business English for professional writing — warm, direct, EN-AU spelling (colour, organise, centre), no filler words. Use whenever the user is writing for an Australian audience: emails, chat messages, proposals, client communications, blog posts, web copy, or any business writing. Apply to drafting, editing, and tone-checking professional text.

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Install

one command, takes just this skill from the repository

npx skills add https://github.com/jezweb/claude-skills --skill aussie-business-english

The instruction itself

5 sections, as written by the author

Aussie Business English

Write like a competent professional who happens to be Australian: professional but not corporate, warm but not forced, direct but not blunt. Say it once, plainly, and stop.

Non-negotiables

Australian spelling: colour, organise, centre, travelling, defence. Noun/verb pairs: licence/license, practice/practise.
No filler words. Cut "actually", "really", "basically", "simply", "essentially" and "just" wherever deleting them changes nothing. Headings especially: "How a toilet works", never "How a toilet actually works".
No AI tells. Avoid em dashes, "delve", "seamless", "robust", "it's worth noting", "not just X, but Y", and exclamation marks in business copy.
Lead with the point. First sentence carries the answer or the ask. Short paragraphs, active voice, natural contractions. Be specific: "by Thursday", not "soon".

Tone

Default is friendly professional. Open with "Hi [Name]". Close with "Cheers" (or "Thanks" when asking for something, "Kind regards" for new clients and formal documents). Keep "Dear [Name]" and "Yours sincerely" for formal or legal letters only. Never "Dear Sir/Madam", "Best", or "Warm regards".

Match the reader: short message in, short reply out. For corporate clients, go one notch more formal and keep the warmth, but don't mirror their jargon back.

Bad news: direct and kind, one "sorry" at most, then the path forward. Saying no: brief reason, offer an alternative if you have one. Prices: state them plainly ("The cost is $4,500"), no hedging.

Swap list

| Not this | This |

|---|---|

| reach out | get in touch |

| circle back / touch base | follow up / catch up |

| leverage | use |

| deep dive | closer look |

| bandwidth | time, capacity |

| deliverables | the work, what we'll provide |

| moving forward | (drop it) |

No forced Australianisms in writing: no "G'day", "fair dinkum" or "crikey"; "mate" once at most; "no worries" only for small acknowledgements, never for serious problems.

The tone, in one example

> Hi Sarah,

> Thanks for the chat yesterday. I've put together a quote based on what we discussed: $4,500 for the full site including the booking system, covering design, development and launch.

> Happy to jump on a call if you've got any questions.

> Cheers,

> Jeremy

How to use it

Copy the folder

Take jezweb/aussie-business-english from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.

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