「やばいリンガル」 Sport
オーストラリアはスポーツ大国に間違いない。sportも典型的なオージー英語として使われる言葉だが、他の英語圏での意味と全く違う。どのように違うか見てみよう。 Australia is undoubtedly a sporting power, but sport in Strine, or Australian English, has a completely different meaning compared to when the word is used in other forms of English. Read on to find out how.

Japan and Australia have not traditionally shared the same sporting preferences, with Australia choosing Aussie Rules and cricket while Japan preferred baseball and sumo. But the great friends are increasingly becoming sporting rivals, too, in soccer and rugby as sporting fields have broadened in recent decades. Learn more here.