the way they pronounce 'route', but I suppose that is one I will pick up given the different meaning when pronounced the 'english' way :D

"NECK-LACE"

I asked my aussie girlfriend if I could give her a pearl neck-lace and she just looked at me blankly.

They DO pronounce it strange, then.


badgers


:D

OMG badgers lol.

Talk about lower the tone !

:D

eh?! No it was a bloody expensive one, too!

Enough of pearl necklaces! There are other forums you can go on if you want to discuss your 'private' life!

My wife is constantly picking me up on the fact I say Opera Winfrey and she says Oh-prah Winfrey.

Or am I just wrong?!!

Paul is always being asked by the lads on the site " did you have a root last night " !!!!
Youse i think is quite cool .
Here are a couple of words that we hear used , mostly from the kids:
Sweet / sick = Cool ( i actually told them off for saying sick , they said mum its cool to say sick , yep people use it )
One that annoys me is righty o , my trainer at the gym says it after every other word .
Joanne and Paul and kids

The ability to shorten a word and put O on the end!

Smoko!
Ambo!
Fireo

I swore I would never do it until this week and asked a colleague in work to help me with the doco! They all looked at me strange as I burst into tears of laughter.

Oh and yes we do have toys - r - us too
Joanne

A couple more

Docket- Receipt
Swimmers- Swimming shorts
Rego- Car tax
Pink slip- MOT
Bako- JCB

Pete

:beer: :beer:

Strweth you lot are so clued up I had better do a crash course in Home & Away and Neighbours!!

The only ones I can think of are
Crook / ill
Chook/ chicken

These australianisms are not at all irritating - they are marvellous. Good god you all sound like my old elocution teacher. Language is oral and colorful and you should enjoy the differences - not get irritated cos they pronounce things differently. Apparently the Aussie raised (questioning) inflection is the biggest influence on young people over here - now that really is annoying.

Elaine?

a mate of mine over here has a theory that the inflection comes from the way Aussies state everything as a question which is all part of the "laid back" thing ie. in a polite situation you don't TELL someone something - you suggest it? :-) an astute aussie told me that most aussies will try and avoid confrontation most of the time? :-) all to do with when your a white man living in a black's man country and you have to adapt to survive - you can't afford not to negotiate etc get on with people.. hear two people negotiating something - even in an office environment and it will be like this. Know what I mean?

badgers "near fatal case of question mark inflection" mount

ps when I say white man living in a black mans country I am not talking about the black fellas - I'm talking about the conditions, heat, not much water etc - this is how my aussie girlfriends dad explained it to me?

How about

Dunny - for the little room
In your Boots - !
Durex - sellotape - be careful when you ask for this one
band aid - elastoplast






;) ;) ;)

A few more

True!!- Really!!
Fair dinkum- Yes my fiancee sometimes says this to me :scared:

Hard Yakka- Brand of workwear also means hard work
Redback- Spider, workboots or drink
Cobber- Mate, One of my fiancee's "relo's" owns a farm in the outback he actually came up to me and said " how ya going cobber" i thought he was taking the piss
Relo- Relative

Shes getting pissed off with me now so better stop


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Singlets - vest
biccies - biscuits
rellies - relatives