Back To The Basics To Take The Strain Out Of Strine
Kangaeroo.com originally started as a bit of a joke site focused on Strine–the word to describe Australian English that is a play on the word “Australian” as pronounced in a broad Aussie accent.
In the earliest years of the site, language played a central role in content. I created categories like やばいリンガル, which was loosely for words that were a little bit on the naughtier side, or yabai, in both English and Japanese.
Then we had 豪cabulary that honed in on individual words that are distinctly Australian with the category being a portmanteau of go (豪), the kanji abbreviation used in Japanese for the now virtually archaic name for Australia of goshu, and vocabulary.
ストラインと日本語 (Strine and Japanese) is a category supposed to show instances of fusion between Strine and Japanese through homonyms in both languages like oi, dunny and shiela.
And, finally, there was the lexicography category of Strine Why Atorkin/Australian Methods of Speech/豪語の話し方, which I have forgotten why I set up and what it means, but made into a category anyway.
Having gone through all that rigmarole, I thought it would be a good chance to do a refresher on Strine and provide a comprehensive list of Australian English resources as a throwback to the earliest days of Kangaeroo.com, when I must confess to having had an image of publishing a Strine dictionary. How wonderful if would have been had anybody else had the same interest!
Strine Origins
Sociocultural Variations of Australian English
Types Of Strine
Australian Aboriginal languages
Australian Aboriginal sign languages
Macquarie University – Australian voices
Torres Strait Island languages
Variation in Australian English
Strine Speakers
It’s rooted: Aussie terms that foreigners just won’t get
Diminutives in Australian English
The great Australian speech impediment
Weary Kiwis changing accents in Australia
Worst Words of 2012 Poll: Mommy Porn, Gangnam Style, Fiscal Cliff
Australian Word Map (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Australian Word Map (Macquarie)
Australian English For Beginners
New language discovered in remote desert town
Sunburnt Country Strine Sayings
The Darwin dictionary will get you talking like a true Territorian
Strine From Ye OIden Dayes
11 Delightful 19th-Century Australian Slang Terms
19 Confounding Discrepancies Between American English and British English
Glossary of British terms not widely used in the United States
Strine Sources
Macquarie Dictionary explanation
Australian National Dictionary Centre | School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics
