My girlfriend is a born & bread Aussie, with possibly the strongest Aussie accent you're likely to hear. We have been together nearly a year & we understand most things each other is likely to say these days. I still have to explain some of the jokes on the uk comedies we watch, but that's more to do with the lack of knowledge of uk personalities.

I said something last night which she didn't understand......"oh my giddy aunt". Was quite amusing explaining what I meant by that.

Anyone else still have surprises in language still?

But what if you'd said the complete saying "Oh my giddy Aunt Fannie" ?

Which I did say to my husband once, he said "Who's Auntie Fannie?"

We both still surprise each other and screw things up, and I just smile and think how wonderful he is to have such a high level in a 2nd language......when I can barely string a sentence together most weekends.

I've never heard the full thing either lol

Ha ha.....will have to tell her about the 2nd language thing lol

hahah, well my gran always used to say the Fannie bit so maybe it's legit or not?!

I meant it about the 2nd language though, he's not a neanderthal Aussie, he is a real foreigner! hheheee

Say it to her anyway to wind her up.

I was having a convo with a pommie work colleague and said "you need to do it just like that"...we both looked at each other and said together "wot, just like that" we were hysterical and everyone else had no idea why.

Then we both realised, it's a pommie thing

I wonder how many of the following English slang the Aussies would understand?

Plastered
Rumpy Pumpy
Parky
Bobs your uncle
cheesed off
cods wallop
Dogs bollocks
Tickety boo
Todger
Bees knees
hows your father?
cakehole
off your trolley
for crying out loud!

Just told her the Aunt Fannie bit & she laughed saying she would if asked who Aunt Fannie was too lol

I sometimes forget that it's me with the accent!

If you just take the word BOLLOCKS and explain that it can be a good thing, a bad thing or dangly bits....that's quite a challenge. Have have a few Aussie friends that use that word a lot now

I've been living with my aussie husband for nearly 4 years now and every so often I still use an expression that he hasn't heard before .... yesterday it was "**** that for a game of soldiers" - he cackled like a loon at that one and I could see him making a virtual note of it for future use

Lol....

I have said "beautiful Bernard" a couple of times, but really not worth an explanation lol

I'm Australian, and I understand all of them.

"Where's the Ashes gone? (Where's the Ashes gone?),
Far, far away! (Far, far away!)"

Understand that?

Soemthing you and the Barfly haven't told the rest of us

'Gordon Bennett!' raises a few eyebrows and telling an Aussie youre 'shattered' when you mean tired does too.

Saw some work by Gordon Bennett at GOMA. Was with a group of Aussies & I was the only one that found it amusing.

Another one is when I say the shops are heaving....as in busy....that one still throws her.