Citations:Australianese
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English citations of Australianese
Noun: "Australian English, especially when containing Australian slang or other Australianisms"[edit]
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- 1978, Patsy Adam-Smith, chapter X, in The ANZACS, page 102:
- Anzac burial parties greeted the enemy with odds and ends of Arabic phrases, and with Australianese that must have been incomprehensible to them.
- 1980, George Reiger, "Fishing In The Land Of Topsy-Turvy", Field & Stream, January 1980, page 72:
- While the Australian black, brown, copperhead, the death adder, and taipan snakes are all poisonous, the real troublemaker (or "stirrer," as they say in Australianese) is the tiger snake.
- 2015, S. A. Gordon, Grand Slam, Xoum (2015), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
- 'You said "ass" like an American.'
- 'Well, I know you wouldn't understand me if I said it in Australianese.' […]