From hoon to halal snack pack, this book records the unique, sacrosanct, larrikin, evolving dialect we share.
, recording how his ship “carried him safely down under”. In one sentence, a term was born, our famed preposition, since etched by song and Euro-centric maps: Down Under. Terra Australis. Home.
Next comes the gold frenzy, the 1850s yielding digger and dinkum, keepsakes compared to the transience of shicer or long tom: a washing trough. Indeed, reading the lexicon, I sensed eras swim by, our story’s “everywhen” on each page. This adverb was coined by Sydney anthropologist William Stanner to outline the non-Western mindset of time, where the ageless story of Country imbues the past, the moment and tomorrow.
Bogan is its own mini-essay, a caste defying any tidy box. Not just the mystery of its derivation but the word’s ties to ocker, or westie or AC/DC music. Defying what many presume, bogan transcends class and education.
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