In a previous life I was sitting with a boat engineer and skipper and a mate of mine and we had a coffee and chatted about life, happiness and the state of the nation (or vessel)
After we had been there for a while, my mate from another occupation said that he had been listening to us for a couple of hours and hardly understood a word we were saying
This made me realise that each occupation or group developed its jargon and probably explains the very many dialects in places like Great Britain.
As a relative new comer I have noticed this in the forum and see how others are also coming to comply with the terminology.
The tug rather than the vehicle The den rather than the van Evilbay rather than Ebay The playground rather than Australia. I am sure there are more.
Not being critical of this but just an amused onlooker
this will set the cat amongst the pigeons.........
A recent 2 year study by a very well known Eastern States University concluded that Australians came up with their unique vocal "twang" from when white Poms first came over here. Many indentured and prison farm works were given a tot or two of rum as payment at the end of each day and usually the "freemen" also drank.
It was at this time of day that social conversations took place and the folk were always slightly drunk and slurred their speech slightly. Over the years, the twang developed.
No - this is not a made up story - it featured in "The Australian" a few months ago.
Now I'm guessing that's why they call beer 4X - but budgie smugglers - so I don't see any physical resemblance between the two, nor the fact the if you say "togs" in WA - they have no idea what youre talking about
Flip flops (noise, I guess) - how many other common ones do we have - oh, Servos rather than Service Stations, firies rather than firemen............
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this will set the cat amongst the pigeons.........
A recent 2 year study by a very well known Eastern States University concluded that Australians came up with their unique vocal "twang" from when white Poms first came over here. Many indentured and prison farm works were given a tot or two of rum as payment at the end of each day and usually the "freemen" also drank.
It was at this time of day that social conversations took place and the folk were always slightly drunk and slurred their speech slightly. Over the years, the twang developed.
No - this is not a made up story - it featured in "The Australian" a few months ago.
Now I'm guessing that's why they call beer 4X - but budgie smugglers - so I don't see any physical resemblance between the two, nor the fact the if you say "togs" in WA - they have no idea what youre talking about
Flip flops (noise, I guess) - how many other common ones do we have - oh, Servos rather than Service Stations, firies rather than firemen............
They call it XXXX, because calling it beer would be false advertising...
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