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Strine is a term coined in 1964 and subsequently used to describe a joke or made-up "language" purportedly spoken by Australians whose accents frequently run words together in a type of liaison. The term is a syncope, derived from a shortened phonetic rendition of the pronunciation of the word "Australian" in an exaggerated Broad Australian accent. ...more
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Published 1965 by Ure Smith
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Emma Glaisher
Oh, does no one else remember this book? My parents had it, and its sequel 'Nose Tone Unturned'. I must have read them in late 60s/early 70s. Probably not all that funny but they seemed so to a 12 year old. Just popped back into my head. Will try and track down a copy... ...more
Valerie
We were given a copy of this book when we moved to Australia, only partly in jest. I have to say I didn't find it very useful as a phrasebook. I found jokes the Aussies told more useful, as in the story of the man who walked into a pub with a galah on his shoulder. "Where'd you get the galah?" one of the regulars asks, and the galah replies "Oh, I picked him up in an auction."

If you're planning to go to Australia, you won't find this book leaves you much the wiser. You're still likely to undergo
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This book is as old as I am, but it still has some gags that kill. I reccommend it to anyone who finds Australians hard to understand.
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Afferbeck Lauder (a syncope for "Alphabetical Order") is a psudonym for Alastair Ardoch Morrison, an Australian writer who gave no clue as to his identity in any of his books.

Lauder's books include: Let Stalk Strine (1965), Nose Tone Unturned (1967), Fraffly Well Spoken (1968) and Fraffly Suite (1969)

In October 2009, Text Publishing Company, Mairlben re-published all four books in an omnibus editi
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