2/28/2024 0 Comments Strange australian lingo![]() When someone exclaimed to me: “OMG check out his budgie smugglers” I really had absolutely no clue what they were talking about. Some phrases can be a bit more difficult to work out than the abbreviations Australians use. MacDonalds, you know that famous fast food burger joint, is only known as Macca’s over here! I think the video below perfectly illustrates this unique way of speaking Australian! At other times they’ll just add a different vowel instead of the ‘o’. Oddly though, some of these words end up being longer than they were originally. ![]() “ bottle-o” (Bottle shop / off license) “ servo” (garage / service station). This is because for some weird reason Australians like to shorten every word and then add a vowel to the end of it… e.g. Once you’ve been in Australia for, well, an hour, you’ll notice that nearly every word has an ‘o’ on the end of it. Image from flickr How To Speak Australian Some of these words may not be as commonly used these days, but you might still hear them being used ironically or by older Australians.
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