This is from the 1940s, but Aussies DO have a wealth of slang that no one else can suss. So, what new terms can we add, and which ones no longer apply?

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I will sort this out for you when I am not so pissed.

That's a bit shonky

Sheila, Shout, drop the bundle, dinkum, abo ( as a racist term) , pommies, woop woop, barrack are all still in common use. the others are not. some of them are not uniquely australian.

Yeah bassplayer us Aussie's have words that most septic tanks can't fathom....



ROCKMAN

or just "septics" so the drongo's have more of a tanty trying to work it out!

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> or just "septics" so the drongo's have more of a
> tanty trying to work it out!

Bonza !!

ROLLING STONED...
Struth mate ....dont give too much away or
next the blighters will be movin' in and chattin'
up ya missus while ya down sinkin' a few at the rubberdee dub.....



ROCKMAN

a few VB's at the R.S.L do you mean?

Yes okay, I am a pom, but I nearly married a true blue aussie sheila, so I was fluent in the lingo for a while!

Yeah cobber the ole RSL is another good waterin' hole....



ROCKMAN

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Thanks Gazza....Good to read...

When goin' ta school always loved
usin' the old line........Dog's eye with dead horse......Classic



ROCKMAN

Buy a few Kevin "Bloody" Wilson CD/DVD's. Great way to catch the "language".
Do a search at play.com or amazon.

TE
Oslo
Proud owner of the Largest Kev collection in Scandiland (?)

nor can we forget that in australia, a "penal criminal" is referred to as an "australian."

more chance of being descended from a convict if you are english than if you are australian is a little known fact.