I have mentioned before Australia’s penchant for shortening words. Just for fun, here’s an Australian vocabulary quiz for you. See how many you can get right (no cheating). If you want, you can post your answers in the comments section. I’ll give the right answers with my next post. If you have ever lived in OZ you are disqualified from taking the quiz (probably Kiwis too, just for good measure) – sorry, Yanks only.
1. Footy 2. Kindy 3. Brickie 4. Sickie 5. Postie 6. Compo 7. Smoko 8. Gastro 9. Journo 10. Arvo
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May
1 week ago
5 comments:
OK...here are my guesses:
1. rugby
2. kindergarten
3. brick layer
4. sick day off from work
5. mailman
6. worker's comp pay
7. coffee break
8. upset stomach
9. journalist
10.afternoon
How'd I do??
Debbie
I am impressed!
I cheated..have to admit it. I googled "Aussie slang" and found some great web sites. I'll have to admit that I had to go to several different sites to find all of them. It was fun, but sorry I cheated! :-)
Debbie
I said no cheating! LOL. I was pretty shocked that you would know all of those...pretty sneaky.
At least I owned up to it! I could have let you continue to think I was unusually bright!
:-)
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