Up a wombat’s freckle
June 24, 2017 3:11 PM Subscribe
Barry Humphries reviews the second edition of the Australian National Dictionary.
"The reader should be warned that there are one or two colloquialisms in this review."
That was a fair dinkum article. Real bonzer!
(Sadly I knew those terms before the article. I like to collect and utilize odd slang.)
posted by Samizdata at 5:34 PM on June 24, 2017
(Sadly I knew those terms before the article. I like to collect and utilize odd slang.)
posted by Samizdata at 5:34 PM on June 24, 2017
Not to suggest that he's not a treasure as-is, but you all know as well as I do that whenever he comes up, the curse of Barry Humphries obligates us to refer at least obliquely to a certain honorable personage lest we be cursed ourselves.
With that out of the way: "Pillow biter" really only goes back to the seventies?
posted by Sys Rq at 10:11 PM on June 24, 2017 [1 favorite]
With that out of the way: "Pillow biter" really only goes back to the seventies?
posted by Sys Rq at 10:11 PM on June 24, 2017 [1 favorite]
Featuring a fair few Barry Humphries in this exposé of Life in Kangaroo Valley (Earls Court Road, London): Adventures of Barry McKenzie (1972) Trailer
posted by Mister Bijou at 5:10 AM on June 25, 2017
posted by Mister Bijou at 5:10 AM on June 25, 2017
Cartoonist Jon Kudelka on the "mate" issue (context: there has been a recent kerfuffle in Australian politics about ramping up English requirements for new citizens - the cartoon depicts bigot-guddling ambitious Minister for Immigration Peter Dutton and glide path Opposition Leader Bill Shorten).
posted by hawthorne at 7:01 AM on June 25, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by hawthorne at 7:01 AM on June 25, 2017 [1 favorite]
How interesting! I'm glad to see the dictionary has an entry (and has done for a long time, it seems) for the "wait-a-while" plants I encountered in the forest.
posted by BlackLeotardFront at 7:32 PM on June 25, 2017
posted by BlackLeotardFront at 7:32 PM on June 25, 2017
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