We were spoilt over the weekend – yesterday at least – with a lovely, sunny, not-too-hot summer’s day.
Today we have rain.
All that is visible where Mount Warning should be is next door’s bamboo (who plants bamboo these days … ??) which grows at a rate of about one metre per week, (!!**!!) and I have been assured will be trimmed – “soon”.
I found a wet little Hoppy (of gammy foot fame) huddled on the veranda late this afternoon, along with a friend.
They seem to like sheltering on my veranda. I’ve also noticed they spend time on rainy days sheltering in our bar-be-que area. Yesterday, I had to give the area a good hosing, as they had left some “evidence” of their visits!
Next week – on the 26th – it’s Australia Day, and the Australian flavoured posts are beginning to do the rounds of the internet. I thought I’d add one today (author unknown) and ask the question –
Without Google searching, how many of these words or phrases have you heard, or now the meaning of? 😉
In My World 
🙂 I’ve used ½ of these terms, and I am a Yankee Doodle 😉
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Well done! 🙂
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It appears I don’t speak Aussie very well.
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I’m here to teach you, Frank. 😉
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🙂 … There must be an online resource for these. and more.
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I think if you search “Aussie slang” you’d find plenty of stranger words Aussie’s use. 😉
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Will do … thank you.
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I’ve heard of and think I know the meaning of nine of them. 🙂
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Have you heard them said in movies, Barbara?
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You know, I don’t think I’ve seen a movie about Australia since the Crocodile Dundee ones. But, Tim & I recently enjoyed an Australian TV series, Offspring, on Netflix. Does “hit the sack” mean go to bed? (It does here. Not sure if it originated in Australia but we used that phrase a lot way back in the 1970s.)
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I’ve heard of Offspring, but never watched it. ‘Hit the sack’ does mean to go to bed, but I’m not sure where the phrase originated either!
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Maybe 8? It’s interesting to note the number that have made it into American lexicon. Probably could be attributed to the popularity of Crocodile Dundee and Steve Irwin. 🙂
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Just a bit of trivia, did you know Bindi Irwin is to be a mother soon?
There’s one thing Paul Hogan used to say on an American TV commercial had plenty of Aussies up in arms – we do not put shrimps on the barbie! 😉
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Ha! But why not? Grilled shrimp is so yummy. 😉
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Shrimps are tiny here! We eat prawns though, which are beautiful seafood and a decent size usually. 🙂
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Ah, I see, it’s a common lexicon difference. Americans don’t use the word ‘prawn’ as much as ‘shrimp,’ which could indicate any size small to large. “Shrimps on the barbie” would be assumed to be at least 3″ long. I love the differences in the English language!
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When we were in Ireland we learned that corned beef and cabbage isn’t Irish! Apparently Irish immigrants created it here in America, substituting the corned beef for the bacon they used back home. 😉
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Isn’t it funny that we sometimes associate certain foods with the wrong country? For years, I believed pavlova (a merangue and fruit dessert) originated in Australia, but apparently it’s a New Zealand creation!
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I recognise loads of those words Joanne and use some regularly, particularly cuppa and no worries!
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Actually, I thought ‘cuppa’ might be used elsewhere, but do you know what ‘straya’ is? 😉
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Straya sounds like it could be short for Australia but I’m probably wrong aren’t I?
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Spot on, Nicki! Australians have a dreadful habit of shortening words, including the name of our country. 🙂
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Yay! 😀
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What fun! I have heard of 14 I think, but have probably only used about ten of them myself. 😃
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Ten? I worked out that I’ve used nine! My parents and three sisters were all born in England though, so I have an excuse. 😉
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