Author: Parragon Books Ltd
Publisher: Parragon
ISBN: 9781445484808
Category : Animal sounds
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
There are 10 noisy farm animals to discover in this interactive book with animal sounds.--
The Penguin Book of Australian Slang
Author: Lenie Johansen
Publisher: Penguin Books
ISBN: 9780140255737
Category : Australianisms
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
The Penguin Book of Australian Slang scales the heights - and plumbs the depths - of the Australian language. For twenty years Lenie Johansen has been tuning in to and recording what Australians really say on the streets, in the pubs and to their family and mates. In this remarkable collection of classic and current colloquialisms she displays for readers all the inventiveness with words and the love of colourful expressions that have made Oz English unique.
Publisher: Penguin Books
ISBN: 9780140255737
Category : Australianisms
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
The Penguin Book of Australian Slang scales the heights - and plumbs the depths - of the Australian language. For twenty years Lenie Johansen has been tuning in to and recording what Australians really say on the streets, in the pubs and to their family and mates. In this remarkable collection of classic and current colloquialisms she displays for readers all the inventiveness with words and the love of colourful expressions that have made Oz English unique.
Australian Slang
Author: Gordon Kerr
Publisher: Penguin Australia
ISBN: 9780143009115
Category : Australianisms
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This dictionary brings together a colourful collection of colloquialisms from Down Under, including humorous rhyming slang, inventive insults and comical curses. Celebrating a distinctive and often irreverent language, Australian Slangis a ripper of a read that will delight visitors from OS, as well as true-blue Aussie blokes and sheilas. Read this book to discover the meaning behind perplexing Australian discourses such as this one- G'day mate! How've ya been, you old bastard? Take a butchers at that galah playing aerial ping-pong on the telly. He's about as useful as a one-legged man in an arse-kicking competition. The drongo'll get the spear if he doesn't pull his socks up.
Publisher: Penguin Australia
ISBN: 9780143009115
Category : Australianisms
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This dictionary brings together a colourful collection of colloquialisms from Down Under, including humorous rhyming slang, inventive insults and comical curses. Celebrating a distinctive and often irreverent language, Australian Slangis a ripper of a read that will delight visitors from OS, as well as true-blue Aussie blokes and sheilas. Read this book to discover the meaning behind perplexing Australian discourses such as this one- G'day mate! How've ya been, you old bastard? Take a butchers at that galah playing aerial ping-pong on the telly. He's about as useful as a one-legged man in an arse-kicking competition. The drongo'll get the spear if he doesn't pull his socks up.
Aussie Humour and Slang
Author: Ian McKenzie
Publisher: Ian McKenzie
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Australian humour can be black, dry, irreverent, ironic, and self-mocking. This humour is reflected in colloquial language used in Australia. This book is a collection of those colloquialisms with some explanations of their derivation and meaning. He has knagaroos loose in the top paddock - It's as dry as a dead dingo's donger - A stubbie short of a six-pack - As busy as a cat burying shit - Mad as a cut snake.
Publisher: Ian McKenzie
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Australian humour can be black, dry, irreverent, ironic, and self-mocking. This humour is reflected in colloquial language used in Australia. This book is a collection of those colloquialisms with some explanations of their derivation and meaning. He has knagaroos loose in the top paddock - It's as dry as a dead dingo's donger - A stubbie short of a six-pack - As busy as a cat burying shit - Mad as a cut snake.
Australian Slang
Author: David Tuffley
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN: 9781477536803
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 65
Book Description
Aussie Slang is a richly-textured, often ribald world of understatement and laconic humour. This guide aims to do three things; (a) to help the traveller decipher what they hear around them in everyday Australian life, (b) give the causal reader some insight into informal Australian culture, and (c) make a record of some old Australian expressions that are slipping into disuse now that English has become a global language. Readers will recognize both British and American terms in this list. Australian English has absorbed much from these two great languages. For depth of knowledge of their own language, no-body beats the British. Its their language after all. A thousand years in the making, the English language is embedded deep in the DNA of the British. No-one uses their language more skilfully than they do. On the other hand, American English has a creative power that recognizes no boundaries. Americans have taken a very good all-purpose language and extended it in all kinds of directions with new words describing the world as it is today. They do not generally cling to old forms out of respect for tradition. As Winston Churchill observed, Britain and America … two great nations divided by the same language. Australian English sits comfortably in the space between the two. Australian English began in the early days of settlement as English English with a healthy dash of Celtic influence from the many Scots, Irish and Welsh settlers who came to Australia. Large numbers of German settlers also came in the 1800's,and their influence on the language is also clearly evident. For over a hundred years, Australia developed in splendid isolation its unique blend of English, tempered by the hardships of heat and cold, deluge and drought, bushfires and cyclones. The harsh environment united people in a common struggle to survive. People helped each other. Strong communitarian loyalties were engendered. It is from this that the egalitarian character of Australia evolved. There is a strong emphasis on building a feeling of solidarity with others. Strangers will call each other "mate" or "luv" in a tone of voice ordinarily reserved for close friends and family in other parts of the world. Everyone was from somewhere else, and no-one was better than anyone else. A strong anti-authoritarian attitude became deeply embedded in Australian English. This was mainly directed towards their British overlords who still ran the country as a profitable colony. The Australian sense of humour is generally understated, delivered with a straight-face, and is often self-deprecating in nature. No-one wants to appear to be “up themselves”. Harsh or otherwise adverse conditions had to be met without complaint, so when discussing such conditions, it was necessary to do so with laconic, understated humour. Anyone not doing so was deemed a “whinger” (win-jer).Following World War II the American influence came increasingly to influence Australian culture and therefore the language. No-one is better at selling their popular culture to the world than the United States of America. Their pop culture is a beguiling instrument of foreign policy, so pervasive and persuasive it is. Young Australians enthusiastically embraced American culture, and since the 1940's the old established British language and customs have become blended with the American. If Australian English has a remarkable quality, it is the absence of regional dialects. It is spoken with relative uniformity across the entire nation. Brisbane on the East coast is a 4,300 kilometre (2,700 mile) drive from Perth on the West coast, yet there is little discernible linguistic difference between the two places compared with the difference, for example between Boston and San Francisco in the US. Nowhere else in the world do we see such linguistic uniformity across large distances.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN: 9781477536803
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 65
Book Description
Aussie Slang is a richly-textured, often ribald world of understatement and laconic humour. This guide aims to do three things; (a) to help the traveller decipher what they hear around them in everyday Australian life, (b) give the causal reader some insight into informal Australian culture, and (c) make a record of some old Australian expressions that are slipping into disuse now that English has become a global language. Readers will recognize both British and American terms in this list. Australian English has absorbed much from these two great languages. For depth of knowledge of their own language, no-body beats the British. Its their language after all. A thousand years in the making, the English language is embedded deep in the DNA of the British. No-one uses their language more skilfully than they do. On the other hand, American English has a creative power that recognizes no boundaries. Americans have taken a very good all-purpose language and extended it in all kinds of directions with new words describing the world as it is today. They do not generally cling to old forms out of respect for tradition. As Winston Churchill observed, Britain and America … two great nations divided by the same language. Australian English sits comfortably in the space between the two. Australian English began in the early days of settlement as English English with a healthy dash of Celtic influence from the many Scots, Irish and Welsh settlers who came to Australia. Large numbers of German settlers also came in the 1800's,and their influence on the language is also clearly evident. For over a hundred years, Australia developed in splendid isolation its unique blend of English, tempered by the hardships of heat and cold, deluge and drought, bushfires and cyclones. The harsh environment united people in a common struggle to survive. People helped each other. Strong communitarian loyalties were engendered. It is from this that the egalitarian character of Australia evolved. There is a strong emphasis on building a feeling of solidarity with others. Strangers will call each other "mate" or "luv" in a tone of voice ordinarily reserved for close friends and family in other parts of the world. Everyone was from somewhere else, and no-one was better than anyone else. A strong anti-authoritarian attitude became deeply embedded in Australian English. This was mainly directed towards their British overlords who still ran the country as a profitable colony. The Australian sense of humour is generally understated, delivered with a straight-face, and is often self-deprecating in nature. No-one wants to appear to be “up themselves”. Harsh or otherwise adverse conditions had to be met without complaint, so when discussing such conditions, it was necessary to do so with laconic, understated humour. Anyone not doing so was deemed a “whinger” (win-jer).Following World War II the American influence came increasingly to influence Australian culture and therefore the language. No-one is better at selling their popular culture to the world than the United States of America. Their pop culture is a beguiling instrument of foreign policy, so pervasive and persuasive it is. Young Australians enthusiastically embraced American culture, and since the 1940's the old established British language and customs have become blended with the American. If Australian English has a remarkable quality, it is the absence of regional dialects. It is spoken with relative uniformity across the entire nation. Brisbane on the East coast is a 4,300 kilometre (2,700 mile) drive from Perth on the West coast, yet there is little discernible linguistic difference between the two places compared with the difference, for example between Boston and San Francisco in the US. Nowhere else in the world do we see such linguistic uniformity across large distances.
Aussie Slang
Author: Sarah Dawson
Publisher: e-penguin
ISBN: 9780140286892
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
What Australian say – and what they really mean. Australia has given the world thousands of colouful words and expressions. From the back of Bourke to the rough end of the pineapple, it's all here. Aussie Slang is the phrase book for visitors to Oz. It's ideal reading for local blokes and sheilas, too.
Publisher: e-penguin
ISBN: 9780140286892
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
What Australian say – and what they really mean. Australia has given the world thousands of colouful words and expressions. From the back of Bourke to the rough end of the pineapple, it's all here. Aussie Slang is the phrase book for visitors to Oz. It's ideal reading for local blokes and sheilas, too.
Fair Dinkum! Aussie Slang
Author: H.G. Nelson
Publisher: National Library of Australia
ISBN: 0642278792
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Australian slang unites the true blue and the dinky-di and separates the cheeky little possums from the happy little Vegemites. When we use slang, we’re connecting with the diggers in the villages of France ordering a vin blanc (‘plonk’) and the Indigenous Dharug-speakers of Sydney locating one another with a familiar cry (‘within cooee’). In this attractive and educational new pictorial guide, readers will be ably led through the world of Aussie slang by the great H.G. ‘battered sav’ Nelson.
Publisher: National Library of Australia
ISBN: 0642278792
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Australian slang unites the true blue and the dinky-di and separates the cheeky little possums from the happy little Vegemites. When we use slang, we’re connecting with the diggers in the villages of France ordering a vin blanc (‘plonk’) and the Indigenous Dharug-speakers of Sydney locating one another with a familiar cry (‘within cooee’). In this attractive and educational new pictorial guide, readers will be ably led through the world of Aussie slang by the great H.G. ‘battered sav’ Nelson.
John Blackman's Best of Aussie Slang
Author: John Blackman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780725107468
Category : Australianisms
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
A collection of Australian slang expressions with generally broad and colourful explanations. Many are in common use in our language but with less colloquial meaning. Many are dictionary words while others are arranged as expressions or phrases. Some are accompanied by graphics by the cartoonist Andrew Fyfe. The collection is arranged in alphabetical order. The author is well known for his television character roles and has written two other books, 'The Aussie Slang Dictionary' and 'Don't Come the Raw Prawn'.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780725107468
Category : Australianisms
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
A collection of Australian slang expressions with generally broad and colourful explanations. Many are in common use in our language but with less colloquial meaning. Many are dictionary words while others are arranged as expressions or phrases. Some are accompanied by graphics by the cartoonist Andrew Fyfe. The collection is arranged in alphabetical order. The author is well known for his television character roles and has written two other books, 'The Aussie Slang Dictionary' and 'Don't Come the Raw Prawn'.
The True Blue Guide to Australian Slang
Author: Jenny Hunter
Publisher: New Holland Pub Pty Limited
ISBN: 9781741101928
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Australians are known for their informality and laid-back nature and this is reflected in the liberal use of colourful and amusing slang. THE TRUE BLUE GUIDE TO AUSTRALIAN SLANG is an A-Z journey through the words, expressions and cultural idiosyncrasies that make Australians so unique. Humorous, yet comprehensive and up-to-date, The True Blue Guide to Australian Slang covers everything from curses and rhyming slang to insults, sexual innuendo and euphemisms. It features classic Aussie bush slang as well as more contemporary expressions that are commonly used in the city. THE TRUE BLUE GUIDE TO AUSTRALIAN SLANG gives us all a new understanding and appreciation of the irreverent wit that is such a feature of the Australian language and will be indispensable for both locals and visitors.
Publisher: New Holland Pub Pty Limited
ISBN: 9781741101928
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Australians are known for their informality and laid-back nature and this is reflected in the liberal use of colourful and amusing slang. THE TRUE BLUE GUIDE TO AUSTRALIAN SLANG is an A-Z journey through the words, expressions and cultural idiosyncrasies that make Australians so unique. Humorous, yet comprehensive and up-to-date, The True Blue Guide to Australian Slang covers everything from curses and rhyming slang to insults, sexual innuendo and euphemisms. It features classic Aussie bush slang as well as more contemporary expressions that are commonly used in the city. THE TRUE BLUE GUIDE TO AUSTRALIAN SLANG gives us all a new understanding and appreciation of the irreverent wit that is such a feature of the Australian language and will be indispensable for both locals and visitors.