Slangs & Lexicon!

[Bordertangoman]

i  do be trying to find some Norfolk dialect to show you

For instance:

If you do be seeing a rook on his own the he be a crow and if you do be seeing a group of crows then they do be rooks.

[Lioness]

Ok, here goes. The Aussie list that not everyone says but that all of the Aussies know (I hope)
G'day - Hello
Struth - Exclamation of surprise, as in 'Struth, that's one big kangaroo!'. Possibly also spelt Strewth.
True Blue/Fair Dinkum - The real thing. In the case of the latter, also an oath that something is a real thing 'A fair dinkum ____'


Umm...I might stop now actually, before any more Aussies pick out errors. I suck at Aussie speak.

BTW, A bogan is pretty much what SW said it was - an uncultured, uneducated, rough-around-the-edges bloke. Those idiots in cars who run around in singlets, shorts (half way down the legs) and thongs are most definitely bogans. Even more so if they have a speech problem (excessive swearing, overuse of the words 'mate' and 'like', etc.)

Oh, and mate is a friend.

[MusicChica]

Before any other NA-ers jump on that one...

Thongs=flip-flops

A good friend of mine spent 8 months in Gold Coast.

[cornutt]

Thongs=flip-flops

Yeah, that's what they were called when I was young.  Specifically,
the "thong" part is the little post that goes between your big toe and
your second toe.  Which I guess is sort of representational...   

[SwingWaltz]

Thongs=flip-flops

Yeah, that's what they were called when I was young.  Specifically,
the "thong" part is the little post that goes between your big toe and
your second toe.  Which I guess is sort of representational...   

LOL Never thought about it that way 

[Lioness]

One I just used somewhere else:

'Hit the sack' has nothing to do with beating a cloth sack. It means to go to bed. Not sure whether that one is in use in places other than Australia, so I put it in anyway.

[Bordertangoman]

Hit the sack is used in the UK and 'Streuth is a shortening of "God's Truth"

[MusicChica]

"Hit the sack" is common in the US too.

[drj]

In New York, we wait on lines. People elsewhere, apparently, wait in lines.

[mummsie]

Before any other NA-ers jump on that one...

Thongs=flip-flops

A good friend of mine spent 8 months in Gold Coast.

they are also called 'pluggers'  mummsie