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From: "Robert Cunning" <>
Subject: Re: Common language?  [was: Strange English Foods.]
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 22:01:16 +1100
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Except some of these are in fact Cockney rhyming slang. Pork pies/ Billy
lids/Frog and Toad, these were Cockney, long before they were used here in
Australia. Cheers, Bob in Melbourne

----- Original Message -----
From: "Anthony Hull" <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 6:39 PM
Subject: Re: Common language? [was: Strange English Foods.]


> Hi Dave.In OZ from early 1900s till around the 40s the average man in the
> street was still conversing in Australian Slang. ( Ozzie slang.)Also
> commonly used around WW1. On the odd occasion, you still may here it
spoken
> from an old Digger, if you are travelling in the outback. ( Durex.) In OZ
> around the 50s or 60s it would depend what shop you were in.
> In a Newsagency, Durex was cellotape or sticky tape.
> In a Chemist, a Prophylactic.( normally.)
> Also, some old Ozzie meanings:
> Pork pies: Eyes.
> Spotted Dick: You needed to see a Doctor real fast.
> Faggots: Something not talked about. ( Especially in a Gay bar.)
> Frog and Toad : The Road. ( Goin up the Frog n' toad.)
> Up the creek: In big trouble.
> Rooting: What Honeymooners do on there wedding night.
> Grog: Beer
> Fork and Knife: Wife.
> Billy lids: Kids ( Children.)
> Strewth: co'r blimey.
> Hence the Ozzie word,G'day.
> www.koalanet.com.au/australian-slang.html
> All the best. Tony Hull, Vic. Aust.
> Gotta go n'pick up the fork n' knife.
> Researching: Essex. HULL,WILLIAMSON, HALES, PENNOCK,LADHAM, E.Colne,White
> Colne,Wakes Colne,Great Tey,Coggeshall,
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 1:05 AM
> Subject: Re: Common language? [was: Strange English Foods.]
>
>
> > In an email dated Thu, 27 Mar 2003 1:53:59 pm GMT, "Josephine Kemper"
> <> writes:
> >
> > >Like asking for a "rubber" in the States!
> > >Josi
> >
> > In Oz, isn't Durex what we call Sellotape?
> >
> > Dave D
> >
> >
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