bonsaidad

This is mainly aimed at a few of our members from Australia, but of course i am looking for other opinions from outside Oz.



Australians saying goodbye to 'g'day mate' - Telegraph



TTFN Paul

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Ashley Barns

Strange observation you have brought to our attention. Living in Orstralia I think the Telegraph have got their wires crossed and were having a slow news day lol. G'day is quite a normal greeting and may disappear in the next few hundred years or so, who knows?

I can tell you the expressions "She'll be apples" (things will be fine/okay) and "No worries" (Not a problem) have disappeared from the vocabulary in the last twenty years.

The dialect remains constant throughout the nation with the exception of a few words of description. Which considering the size of Britain is quite amazing with regard to the variations existing there. That is accountable to the long history and lack of travel within that area early on.

Actually the more I think of it if you extend this to the U.S (being about two hundred years older than Australia. The variants on dialects are quite pronounced.

I think you have opened up a good can of worms here and it will be interesting to see how it unfolds.

Still think your sig. stinks LOL.

Ash

Pup

Stone the flamin crow's the bloody pom's reckon our language is orf.
Next they will tell us how to make beer. and meat pies and olden cars. . Thank God for cricket.

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G, day I live in western Australia I have been trying for the last 20+ years with some success to grow Bonsai. I am a perpetual learner and an advanced beginner

bonsaidad

I can fully understand some phrases dying out over the years, they have done in the UK!, but every now and again they keep cropping up again and become fashionable to the young.
But i cannot imagine someone from Oz referring to the dunny as a toilet, or restroom, unless they are a posh Australian.
Or come to that, a Shelia as a woman!, no! this must not happen as it would be a crime against humanity.
I like Australian colloquialism's ( strewth, i nearly choked on that word ) they bring a smile to my face, and if you can make someone smile i say, go for it.
Words like , Bilabong, Strides, goodonya, ought to be put into the Oxford English Dictionary to keep for all time.

PS Sorry if i have spelling of some words are incorrect



Best regards BD Paul

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Old Chinese proverb says.
Go to bed with itchy bum.
Wake up with stinky finger.

Pup

Bit like trouble and strife sauspan lids barnet fair or a sky rocket.

None of that dont have time, I'm flat out like a lizard drinking.
A lot of those words are in there.
The strine is a bit like the cockney slang as the generation's get older they lose some of the meaning. Then they fall by the way pity. It does not mean that they are not used, just not as much. If you travel in the bush you still hear a lot of the old phrase's. It is just in the bigger town's and the City's that it is dying out. The bushy's will keep it going.

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G, day I live in western Australia I have been trying for the last 20+ years with some success to grow Bonsai. I am a perpetual learner and an advanced beginner

bonsaidad

I suppose its like that around where we live, there are plenty of slang terminology, but move into the cities and its all lost, yet on the other hand, cities in the UK, Cardiff, Liverpool, Birmingham all still use slang words.
Around our way, a- Minger is someone thats ugly, to ask someone- Whats the crack, means whats the problem, Curtain twitcher- is a nosy neighbor.
One that has been introduced to the English Dictionary is, Phwoar- it means you fancy a nice girl, or maybe even a car, but it could relate to anything.
Why do you call men with ginger hair-Bluey?.



Best regards BD Paul

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Old Chinese proverb says.
Go to bed with itchy bum.
Wake up with stinky finger.

Ashley Barns

The crack or the craic is an Irish term meaning .. what is new ..what is the topic. Don't know the term minger but mingin in Scotland means stinking or rotten.

Sheila left us last century and is predominately used in jokes today by parochials like me. Biliabong as far as I can make out was used when someone wrote "Waltzing Matilda" nothing romantic about a stagnant pool.

People with red hair called Bluey is part of Aussie humour, ironic, would you not agree?

Ash

bonsaidad

I have often wondered why the called a ginger hair person bluey, so i boils down to Australian humor.
There would probably be a large Irish influence in this area, as we have many ports, and are really only a stones throw from the Emerald isle.

Have any of you boys been here?.


I know its called wave rock, very apt.


Best regards BD Paul

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Old Chinese proverb says.
Go to bed with itchy bum.
Wake up with stinky finger.

Pup

[Have any of you boys been here?.


I know its called wave rock, very apt.


Best regards BD Paul[/quote]
Yes I have surfed it. It is about a 3 hour drive from my home. It is a place called Hyden. It is a fasinating formation it is also the main wall for the town's water supply dam. Pup.
Yes there are quite a few people of Celtic origin here in God's own land. I am of Irish Scots decent.
Hope to get to see some more of it next year when Mrs Pup and I have trip.

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G, day I live in western Australia I have been trying for the last 20+ years with some success to grow Bonsai. I am a perpetual learner and an advanced beginner

bonsaidad

There is plenty to see in both Ireland, and Scotland with some fantastic scenic views.
I have both Scottish and English blood running through my veins, although i consider myself to be a true Welshman, born and breed.
My maternal grandfathers surname was Macdonald who came from Liverpool, and my maternal grandmother was from Birmingham, but thats not the English connection.
My family surname name goes back to just before the Doomsday book was put together about 1080, my ancestor was the commissioner of the doomsday book and has the same surname as me.
This surname was taken by the cousin of William duke of Normandy, ( William the conquerer ), from a small shallow crossing by a cliff, which is situated in Hereford.
There is a castle built by him which he took the surname from, so if you want to go back that far, i have a French connection.
Clifford Castle



http://www.domesdaybook.co.uk/landowners.html







Best regards BD Paul

__________________
Old Chinese proverb says.
Go to bed with itchy bum.
Wake up with stinky finger.