Aussie English: an explanation of the australian idiom
by John O'Grady
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- Hardcover
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If you are new to Australia, it is possible that you cannot yet tell a ringer from a ring-in, a cockatoo from a galah, a blue from a bluey. When somebody says, 'Hullo, y'old bastard,' do you take offence? If on the other hand you hear yourself referred to as 'that bastard', can you afford to be complacent? John O'Grady, whose racy mastery of Australian idiom has enlivened all his books from They're a Weird Mob on, has now compiled a phrase-book of slang expressions and their find shades of meaning. The result is uniquely funny and uniquely Australian. To read Aussie English is a naturalization ceremony in itself. 'Blokes', 'bludgers', 'blow-ins' and 'bottlers' - they are all here, with their counter-parts down the alphabet.
If you are new to Australia, it is possible that you cannot yet tell a ringer from a ring-in, a cockatoo from a galah, a blue from a bluey. When somebody says, 'Hullo, y'old bastard,' do you take offence? If on the other hand you hear yourself referred to as 'that bastard', can you afford to be complacent? John O'Grady, whose racy mastery of Australian idiom has enlivened all his books from They're a Weird Mob on, has now compiled a phrase-book of slang expressions and their find shades of meaning. The result is uniquely funny and uniquely Australian. To read Aussie English is a naturalization ceremony in itself. 'Blokes', 'bludgers', 'blow-ins' and 'bottlers' - they are all here, with their counter-parts down the alphabet.
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- Bookseller
- DASHbooks (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- DASHbooks43
- Title
- Aussie English
- Author
- John O'Grady
- Illustrator
- Wep
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Fourth impression
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Ure Smith Pty Limited
- Place of Publication
- Sydney
- Date Published
- 1965
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- john o'grady, aussie, english, humour, classic, novel, idiom, slang, expression, funny, explanation, aussie english, an explanation of the australian idiom,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Novel; Humour; Australian Classic;
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