Aussie Slang Flashcards
-“Cheers to ‘shoey’ and ‘smoko’: How the two Australianisms went global
-David Astle, The Age
-March 7th 2023
-“Shoey”
-“Smoko”
-The Australian slang terms ‘shoey’ and ‘smoko’
-N/A
“From ‘technicolour yawn’ to ‘draining the dragon’: how Barry Humpries breathed new life into Australian slang”
-Howard Manns, Isabelle Burke, Kate Burridge, & Simon Musgrave
-May 2nd 2023
-“Ockerdom”
-“Chunder”
-“Technicolour yawn”
-“Draining the dragon”
-“Liquid laugh”
-“Flog the lizard”
-Australian slang was influenced by Barry Humpries in a multitude of ways
-N/A
-“I’ve Live In Malbourne My Whole Life And I Was Just Informed There’s A Malbourne Accent?”
-Aleksandra Bliszczyk, Pedestrian
-April 27th 2022
-Pronouncing “celery” as “salary”
-Pronouncing “Ellen” as “Allen”
-Pronouncing “Elly” as “Ally”
-Pronouncing “Elle” as “Al”
-Pronouncing “Elephant” as “Alaphant”
-Pronouncing “Deli” as “Dalee”
-Pronouncing “Melbourne” as “Malbourne”
-The variety of Australian English being different in Melbourne compared to other places of Australia, with ‘e’ sounds commonly being pronounced as ‘a’
-“teenagers at the time were starting to speak differently to their parents” (Bliszczyk, Language Journalist)
-“It is the young speakers who tend to instigate change” (Squires, Researcher)
-“Are Melburnians mangling the language?”
-Abbie O’Brien, SBS
-20th April 2015
-“Malbourne”
-Pronouncing “Ellen” as “Allen”
-Pronouncing “Celery” as “Salary”
-Pronouncing “Television” as “Talevision”
-Melburnians often pronounce the ‘e’ sound as an ‘a’
-“people do tend to talk like people in the community around them” (Loakes, Linguist)
-“Naur, yeah: Australia, you’re performing linguistic magic when you pronounce the two-letter word ‘no’. Here’s why”
-Amy Hume, The Guardian
-14th December 2022
-“naur”
-Australians pronounce ‘no’ differently than the global standard when speaking in a broad accent
-“Social media has created new platforms for sharing the voices of everyday speaker […]. We’re now hearing different accent varieties that otherwise may not be heard by a global audience” (Hume, Linguist)
-“Yeah, nah: Aussie slang hasn’t carked it, but we do want to know more about it”
-Kate Burridge/Dylan Hughes/Howard Manns/Isabelle Burke/Keith Allan/Simon Musgrave, The Conversation
-12th August 2022
-“Mate”
-“Yeah, nah”
-“Cobber”
-“Dinkum”
-The Australian dialect has some very distinct features, including the lexicon of the Australian speaker
-“This slang - our Australian slang - has been a lightning rod for pride, prejudice and confusion” (Burridge, Linguist)
-“Orright you spunkrats, here’s where all our Aussie summertime language came from”
-Howard Manns/Kate Burridge, The Conversation
-1st January 2022
-“slip, slop, slap”
-“a sandwich short of a picnic”
-“a few snags short of a barbie”
-“a couple of tinnies short of a slab”
-a stubbie short of a six pack”
-Australian language revolves around its environment, often being summertime outdooredness and activities
-“Australians deal with the summer in a very Australian way - Irony, humour and idiom” (Manns, Linguist)
-“Broad or posh, we still sound uniquely Australian. Where did our accent come from?”
-Karl Quinn, The Age
-22nd August 2021
-“G’day”
-Pronouncing “Dance” as “Darnce”
-Pronouncing “Chance” as “Charnce”
-Regardless of their background, Australians tend to have a distinct Australian accent
-“There must have been some substantial changes in the last 20 years to Australian English - but it is also true that all languages change, and that’s one of the main things you can rely on with language” (Loakes, Linguist)
