The Simpsons
Here’s a list of Australian words and slang terms:
Banana bender
Bingle
Brass razoo
Crack a fat
Dinkum
Doovalacky
Wooloongabba
Mozzie
Piece of piss
Pommy bastard
Rip snorter
Sheepshagger
Squizz
Tall poppies
Trackie daks
Yup. Dean Frenkel’s theory that the Australian dialect was created under the influence of alcohol seems correct on surface. Here’s what the University of Melbourne communications professor had to say, though:
“Our forefathers regularly got drunk together and through their frequent interactions unknowingly added an alcoholic slur to our national speech patterns.”
Squigglyboggers I think he’s right.
[Via Jezebel]