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    豪キャブラリー： Chewies

    　多くの人にとってchewieと言えばスターウォーズに登場する毛深いウッキーが思い浮かぶかもしれないが、オージー英語ではchewieはお口直しとしてよく使われているので、ちょっとびっくりするかもしれない。しかし、驚くことはない。オージー英語らしくまた省略言葉でありchewing gumのことだ。Chewiesは言うまでもなく複数形だ。

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    豪のクリスマス・ソング：Twelve Days of Christmas Aussie Style

    　クリスマス・ソングと言えば恐らくまずこの「クリスマスの12日間」を思い浮かぶ人が多いだろう。 　それで、珍しいがオージー版もあるんだ。 　曲の流れやメロディが伝統的な曲と同じだが、「梨の木のヤマウズラ」などじゃなくてもらう物がコアラなどオーストラリア独特なものだ。 TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS AUSSIE STYLE On the 12th day of Christmas My true love sent to me 12 parrots prattling, 11 numbats nagging, 10 lizards leaping, 9 wombats working, 8 dingoes digging, 7 possums playing, 6 brolgas dancing, 5 kangaroos, 4 koalas cuddling, 3 kookaburras laughing, 2 pink galahs, And an emu up a gum tree An Aussie Chrissie （オーストラリア独特な英語によって物語れている物語） Strine Dictionary

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    Goodbye Possums…

    Barry Humphries, the creator of characters such as Dame Edna Everage – the Moonee Ponds housewife famous for her flamboyance and shouted greeting of “Hello Possums” – Sir Les Patterson and Sandy Stone, and himself an entertainer and icon of Straya in many parts of the world, has passed away. Humphries died aged 89 on Saturday following complications from a recent hip surgery. Personally, I wasn’t a great fan of the Moonee Ponds housewife — Dame Edna Average is my name for her — but she had her moments and was a wonderful example of Humphries’ acerbic, anti-Establishment wit that Australian author Kathy Lette described this morning as his brilliance…

  • The Lucky Country

    Australia is often referred to as “the lucky country,” which most people use favorably, but was actually a derogatory term coined by journalist Donald Horne in his book of the same name, and with April 25 a landmark date in Aussie history now called ANZAC Day, it got me thinking about fortune and the role it plays in lives. Australia had the misfortune to fight its first day of war as an independent, federated country on April 25, 1915, and thousands of young men were brutally mowed down in meaningless slaughter in the ill-fated Gallipoli campaign of World War I (having been escorted to the battlefield by our erstwhile Japanese…