Seems a good opportunity for a little musical interlude...The grossly overused 'like' replacing every other word in a sentence....
Seems a good opportunity for a little musical interlude...The grossly overused 'like' replacing every other word in a sentence....
Having lived in Australia for the last 15 years, the Aussie slang is now just a normal part of my vocabulary.Interesting; my dad (from Portadown) also said 'watter'.
He (and I) also say 'sospun' instead of 'saucepan' and if I make a sauce when cooking I'll use the 'sauce sospun'. (Oddly my three - or is that tree - brothers don't say 'sospun' but they all went to boarding school...). It used to infuriate my wife (who is Brazilian) but she no longer mentions and instead complains of all the Aussie I picked up living there, a few examples:
- thirdy instead of thirty, fordy instead of forty, etc.
- wadder instead of watter or, if you prefer, water
- bottle-o - off licence or bottle shop
- servo - pertrol or gas station
- garbies - bin men/women
- firies - firemen/women
- ambo's - ambulance men/women
- arvo for afternoon (as opposed to avo which is a green fruit usually served smashed on toast for breakfast or lunch - although its use for guacamole is acceptable)
- bonza for good/brilliant
- no worries for virtually every occasion that 'no problem' has been mentioned in this thread (although some Aussie's prefer to use "too easy" rather than "no worries")
- Poor girl is still struggling when I come out with some of the obscure Irish slang although she's got used to "that's grand' which is used pretty much as bonza/good or the one American (and seemingly Australian) phrase that I find really grating: awesome. Can anyone explain to me why a waiter/waitress finds it "Awsome" if I order something off their own menu?
- Aussie coffee has a different lingo too
- then there is a whole sub-dialect of Aussie slang...
It used to be "How do you do?". To which the correct response was "How do you do?".Not being a native English speaker, something that irks me is saying 'how are you?' or 'how are your going?' as a greeting and not waiting around for the answer. It seems a bit disingenuous to me.
Also, the English 'cheers' when you mean 'thanks' confuses me a lot.
I must admit at the moment I rather wish we were still in Sydney... ...still I don't think I'll stop speaking Aussie rather than English even after only 9 years there.Having lived in Australia for the last 15 years, the Aussie slang is now just a normal part of my vocabulary.
One particular expression that used to amuse me when I first came over was 'go for your life' as in 'that's fine' or 'go right ahead'.
I asked a boss for a day off once and he replied with 'go for your life, mate'.
With 'at the moment', do you mean during the corona virus? Surely Brazil is cheaper/more convenient from a pipe smoking perspective?I must admit at the moment I rather wish we were still in Sydney... ...still I don't think I'll stop speaking Aussie rather than English even after only 9 years there.
Yes, coronavirus...With 'at the moment', do you mean during the corona virus? Surely Brazil is cheaper/more convenient from a pipe smoking perspective?
That one is on account of one Sir Humphry Davy, the Cornish fellow who first named the element. He was wishy-washy on what he wanted to name it, spelling it three different ways in publications. In the U.S. and Canada, “aluminum“ stuck. Just about everywhere else, “aluminium” was preferred. He could’ve nipped that one in the bud. This was of course before IUPAC.and what we call in the U.S. aluminum isn't even spelled the same way
Considering that English speaking members on this forum, not all being their first language, come from different dialects, pronunciations, and accents, it seems a bit presumptuous to take umbrage at how an individual speaks or types their responses.
"Maresy doats, and dozeydoats, and liddel lamzydivey."
Anyone know the actual words? (I happen to, but this is a quiz!) You may get it by sounding it out, making separate words in most cases.
Good heavens! 24 hours and not one guess?