ANALYSIS: Wearing boardies to the barbie at the bowlo: Why do Aussies shorten so many words?
We are, however, constantly refreshing our stock ofwords. Many of the gems in Wendy Allen's 1980s collection of youth slang in Melbourne have bitten the dust .
But the second edition of the Australian National Dictionary shows us how many words have proliferated since the 1980s/1990s .occurs all round the English-speaking world. However, as the Oxford English Dictionary describes, its use "is especially associated with Australia". The earliest Australian examples date from the 19th century and are abbreviated nouns referring to a person's trade . Sometimes they appear with -because of their association with street calls, and this use is old — think of those cockles and mussels of 18th century London, all very much "alive, alive-oh".
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