Australian slang dictionary

WE'RE NO LONGER 'DOWN UNDER' Lucky is the foreign correspondent who gets to report on a country where the locals express themselves so colourfully. A nation, say, like Australia. Where else would the leader of the opposition call the Prime Minister of the day an “arse licker”? Where else would a political reporter use the phrase “reverse wedgie” in a televised press conference? Where else would you find a golf fan who, looking forward to watching Tiger Woods tee-off, describes himself as being “rapt as a dunny roll?”

Australian English Glossary from A to Zed- Travelogue - Travel Library Submitted by: David Stybr Submission Date: 14th Feb 2005 Much has been written about the differences between British English and American English. French French and Quebec French have a similar relationship. However, nothing quite matches Australian English for its lively colourful phrases. Some words and expressions are quite naturally taken from British slang. Some words have completely different meanings in Australia than in Anglophone countries north of the Equator.

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The Upsidedown Map Page - World Maps with South at the Top It needn't be a Eurocentric world It came as a surprise to me after over 20 years of seeing "normal" world maps to come across an upside down one. The most surprising thing was that I found it surprising. It is completely artificial that we have North at the top of a map. The convention came a few centuries ago when Northern hemisphere, European navigators started using the North star and the magnetic compass. Before that, the top of the map was to the East which is where the word orientation comes from. AMEP DISTANCE LEARNING Research on technology, younge people and wellbeing > Research : Inspire Australia Australia, April 5, 2011 – Research released today by the Cooperative Research Centre for Young People, Technology and Wellbeing (YAW-CRC) has shown that young people are much better equipped to deal with online risks than adults assume and that young people themselves are the most valuable resource for adults concerned about the online safety of their children. Click here to view the intercative media release. The research also reveals significant benefits to young people through social networking, which helps them to build relationships with the world around them and increases their sense of community and belonging. Researchers from the University of Western Sydney, Murdoch University and the Inspire Foundation released the first two reports of the YAW-CRC.

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The Aussie language « AbzinOz On dit que les Australiens parlent anglais …. C’est en partie vrai seulement ! Comme vous allez rapidement vous en rendre compte, ils ont des expressions bien à eux, un vocabulaire spécifique, et un accent australien assez particulier. Au debut, il me paraissait comme un mix entre l’acent anglais et americain. Mais après avoir essaye d’identifier les caracteristiques britanniques ou americaines, je pense finalement que l’accent australien est unique.

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