The difference in appearance can be dramatic, as I saw on a visit to the small, modern factory where Pineider prints its stationery, in a gorgeous part of Tuscany. The Magitek trope as used in popular culture. Advanced ubiquitous magic always seems to end up working just like technology. The car engine might be powered. Huck Ill take the canoe and go see, Jim. It mightnt be, you know. Other famous uses of dialect. Freemasonry is a blend of occult, paganism, satanism, demonology and spiritualism. It is not of GodA Dictionary of Australian Slang. All content of this website is under copyright and subject to all laws thereof. If you are unsure how to properly cite copyrighted material, refer to your style manual or feel free to e mail me at bookcrazedyahoo. Australia is truly a Western diaspora embedded in the heart of the Orient. Many of these terms are not original to Australia, but rather simply unfamiliar to me. Most of these Oz adopted words are British, the peoples who most influenced the formation of the unique culture that is todays Australia. The Australian love of slang is perhaps unparalleled anywhere in the world, adding a rich vocabulary of original words to the worlds Englishes. Though I had thought the word Ozian to be my original contribution to Aussie slang, a recent Internet search revealed that the term Ozian is routinely used in reference to characters in The Wizard of Oz and, in at least one case, it was used as a double entendre for both Oz folk and Aussie folk. The same search turned up Ozian as a Hungarian surname. Spellings of slang words that end in a y sound or contain the double s so frequently pronounced as z zed in Australian, not zee have varying spellings. For instance, the transplanted British slang for bathing suit or rather, bathing costume, cossie, is just as acceptably spelled cossie,cozzy and cozzie. A few Australians who have lived in the U. S. advised that the regional differences in accent and slang are minimal in Australia, as compared to the U. S. However, many Australians tell me they can hear accents from different parts of the country, and as noted in some of the definitions, there are apparently regional differences in slang. Aussie Lance Brooker writes, I must say as someone from the east there really are definite differences between Vic, NSW, QLD eastern states and South AustraliaWA non eastern states. As you mentioned a lot of this must be because of the larger amount of people directly derived from english stock probably non convictfree settler stock too. So we in the east seem a tad less formal and use less typically english phrases. A good example you used was bathers vs cossies. To me bathers is a word used by a Mum trying to be posh or sound upper class. So, in fact it is not just the location east vs west but the socio economic class. My son, who has lived for extended periods of time in both Perth and Sydney, was the first to mention that Australian accents arent as diverse as American accents, yet also the first to mention that there are what he calls localisms In the west, beer is pronounced bee ah, in the east beeh. Funny I know that one so well. The dictionary to which I refer below as the Oxford Australian is the Australian Pocket Oxford Dictionary, 5th ed., which, by the way, would require a very large pocket to contain it. Recently I discovered a book that seems to have done a fine job of making an analysis of Australian English, including an exhaustive listing of slang words and phrases, Bruce Moores Speaking Our Language The Story of Australian English. I highly recommend it for anyone who will be staying in Australia for any length of time. By the by, if youre in the market for Aussie bar crawl slang that predominantly focuses on the area demarcated in the north by the navel and in the south by the knee, click here for clever and witty X rated phrasesstrictly not for delicate sensibilities. Another useful and entertaining Internet record of Aussie phenomena is The White Hat Guide to Australian Inventions, Discoveries Innovation at http www. AustraliaInventions. This short term for aboriginal is a serious and hurtful racial slur. Visitors and newcomers to Australia often make the mistake of using this slang, thinking it is simple shorthand for aboriginal. Its not Dont use it Indigenous Australian. I had to move to Australia to bother to look up the term and learn that Aboriginal applies to native indigenous peoples throughout the world. In North America, the American Indians some years ago expressed a preference to be called Native Americans, a more accurate label. In some literature, particularly old anthropological and missionary texts, Native Americans are referred to as the Aboriginal peoples of America. In Australia, where the native peoples have long been labeled Aboriginal, the word Indigenous is becoming the preferred term. Another designation that is frequently heard is First Australians. Aborigine is usually the noun form, and Aboriginal the adjective. Dont go aggro on me, mate or She was so aggro. paramedic. Originally a term for the Australian New Zealand Army Corps of World War I, it has become an adjective for any number of things relating to that war. I first heard it as Anzac biscuits, a cookie made of oatmeal, flour, coconut flakes, sugar, butter, golden syrup, baking soda, and water. Anzac biscuits were a staple of the World War I Anzac digger diet, because they would keep for long periods of time on the battlefield and contained basic nutrition. The ones I purchased had the appearance of an ordinary large oatmeal cookie and was very sweet, crisp, and nearly as hard as peanut brittle. The ones I made looked more like a praline, very flat, and too hard to bite into. Aussie Lance Brooker wrote to add this one to my list. I was in Australia eight years before I heard it or maybe, before I became aware I was hearing it. U. S. as track and field. Also used in discussing athletics in general, as it is in the U. S. infant car seat. I first heard this within the family during my 1. Perth. It was easy enough to discover the meaning when my granddaughter, instructed to go put on her bathers, returned wearing her bathing suit. Taryn East states this term is only used in Western Australia, cossie and swimmers being the usual term in the east. Sociologist Zohl D Ishtar tells me that bathers is the preferred designation in South Australia, but agrees with Taryn that easterners use cossie and swimmers. Bruce Moores Speaking Our Language states that, in Victoria and Queensland, the term togs always refers to bathers and never clothes in general, as it does in other states. Toilets are housed in a separate, small, closet like room, a true water closet. The bathroom typically is equipped with a sink and a bath tub Roman bath or shower rarely both, except in more expensive homes. Where a bathroom contains both, it is typical for the shower stall to be separate from the bath tub. Having said that, I live in a unit, built in 1. American bathrooms had. The first time I came to Australia in 1. Why does Nana say that shes going to the bathroom and then she goes to the toilet During that first visit, I learned to ask for the location of a public toilet, as I found the terms restroom and bathroom to be puzzling to many Australians. Since then, the increasing presence of American television programs and American tourists have made these American peculiarities more widely understoodso much so, that I ate in a restaurant whose signs to the toilets actually said bathrooms. It is a peculiarity of Americans that we will ask where the bathrooms are, but we will be looking for signs that say restrooms or public toilets, or lounge not in much use since the 1. Go figure. As a colloquialism, it means Great It is used to describe, as in Its a beaut, mate, or as an exclamation, as in Beauty, mate. Is the mate necessary You bet your sweet bippy it is I asked an American born Aussie what a bedsit is I saw them advertised as rentals in the newspaper. He replied, an efficiency apartment. Aussie Taryn East thinks this is a confusion with a studio and refers me to a Wiki British definition for bedsit, which compares it to an American rooming house. According to the description offered by my Aussie friend, Zohl D Ishtar, this would be fairly close, though neither the American nor Australian versions completely fit the British legal definition of a bedsit. Zohl says, thats a rented room with a bed and if youre lucky a chair in it. You get to bed sit, i. Size of a small prison cell. kitchen counter, as well as other types of counter tops. Countertop appliances are called benchtop appliances. In Western Australia, the most notorious bikie gang is the Gypsy Jokers. Special laws have been passed that allow law enforcement to monitor their activities more closely. A place to go for all the Questions and Answers you can handle.
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