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ROMANCE WRITING
AWARD
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AUSSIE WORDS and expressions and their meanings
The Tate Gallery P/L Australia
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Hello, and WELCOME from VALERIE PARV
Not many Aussies talk like that in any case. These days you’ll find elevators
alongside lifts, cookies beside biscuits, and footpaths doubling for pavements.
Australian author, Eleanor Dark, called the language, “English…but not quite”,
as British writer, Monica Dickens found when asked to sign a book to Emma
Chissit. Turns out the buyer was asking the writer the book’s price ("how much
is it?") in broad Strine, itself a contraction of Australian.
Mate, by the way, is any friend however distant, not one’s spouse or partner.
If you’re staying with someone who asks if you want a hot share, it’s not a
financial deal, but a hot shower. And a Sundee Piper is a Sunday (news)paper.
It’s all in the accent!
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Right now, I’m
flat out
getting ready for the conference, so
see you!
Valerie
so come back again SOON !
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You’ll often find
the I sound being used for A, and Ah for R as in G’Dye Myte = Good Day Mate,
the standard Aussie greeting.
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