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

Strine

Afferbeck Lauder

Australian English

Sociocultural Variations of Australian English

Types Of Strine

Australian Aboriginal English

Australian Aboriginal languages

Australian Aboriginal sign languages

Australian English phonology

Australian English vocabulary

Australian Kriol

Australian performance poetry

Barossa German

Macquarie University – Australian voices

Norfuk language

Torres Strait Creole

Torres Strait English

Torres Strait Island languages

Variation in Australian English

Western Australian English

Strine Speakers

Banjo Paterson

Bogan Pride

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

Odd Australian Place Names

Australian Word Map (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Australian Word Map (Macquarie)

Collective Nouns

Why Aussies Shorten Slang

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

Geographical renaming

Glossary of British terms not widely used in the United States

Strine Sources

Macquarie Dictionary

Macquarie Dictionary explanation

Australian National Dictionary Centre | School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics

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