Book!

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Oh yeah, one other thing. While at the National Museum of Australia the other day, Jillian Kit picked me up a copy of Aussie English for Beginners: Book Two. Quite entertaining--including illustrations--and potentially useful to boot. :) (Among its gems are "chunder" (to vomit, or vomit itself) and the fact that the word "didgeridoo" is not Aboriginal in nature, but instead came from English speakers' pronunciation of Irish dúdaire dubh 'black horn-blower'. [And alternate possible origin is English phonetics for how the instrument sounds, but the other etymology is more interesting. :) ])

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Yup! I was as surprised as you. :)