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Arnhem Land
Arnhem Land is one of the five regions of the Northern Territory of Australia.
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Association football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball.
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Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.
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Australian Aboriginal languages
The Australian Aboriginal languages consist of around 290–363 languages belonging to an estimated twenty-eight language families and isolates, spoken by Aboriginal Australians of mainland Australia and a few nearby islands.
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Australian comedy
Australian comedy (or Australian humour) refers to the comedy and humour performed in or about Australia or by the people of Australia.
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Australian English
Australian English (AuE, en-AU) is a major variety of the English language, used throughout Australia.
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Australian National University
The Australian National University (ANU) is a national research university located in Canberra, the capital of Australia.
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Australian Oxford Dictionary
The Australian Oxford Dictionary, sometimes abbreviated as AOD, is a dictionary of Australian English published by Oxford University Press.
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Australian rules football
Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, or simply called Aussie rules, football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of eighteen players on an oval-shaped field, often a modified cricket ground.
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Barry Crocker
Barry Hugh Crocker AM (born 4 November 1935 in Geelong, Victoria, Official Barry Crocker website Australia) is a popular Gold Logie award-winning character actor, television personality, singer, and variety entertainer with a crooning vocal style known for his iconic Australian films The Adventures of Barry McKenzie and sequel Barry McKenzie Holds His Own and singing the theme tune to the popular Australian soap opera Neighbours.
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Barry McKenzie
Barry McKenzie (full name: Barrington Bradman Bing McKenzie)Rebecca Coyle and Michael Hannan:, La Trobe University, 2005 is a fictional character created in 1964 by the Australian comedian Barry Humphries (but suggested by Peter Cook) for a comic strip, written by Humphries and drawn by New Zealand artist Nicholas Garland in the British satirical magazine Private Eye.
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Beer
Beer is one of the oldest and most widely consumed alcoholic drinks in the world, and the third most popular drink overall after water and tea.
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Billy Hughes
William Morris Hughes, (25 September 186228 October 1952) was an Australian politician who served as the seventh Prime Minister of Australia, in office from 1915 to 1923.
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Bogan
Bogan is Australian slang for a person whose speech, clothing, attitude and behaviour are considered unrefined or unsophisticated.
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Boomerang
A boomerang is a thrown tool, typically constructed as a flat airfoil, that is designed to spin about an axis perpendicular to the direction of its flight.
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Brisbane
Brisbane is the capital of and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland, and the third most populous city in Australia.
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British English
British English is the standard dialect of English language as spoken and written in the United Kingdom.
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Canberra
Canberra is the capital city of Australia.
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Cockney
The term cockney has had several distinct geographical, social, and linguistic associations.
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Cooee
Cooee! is a shout used in Australia, usually in the bush, to attract attention, find missing people, or indicate one's own location.
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Darug
The Darug are a group descending from an indigenous Australian people of that name, which shares strong ties of kinship and, in pre-colonial times, survived as skilled hunters in family groups or clans scattered throughout much of what is modern-day Sydney.
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Didgeridoo
The didgeridoo (also known as a didjeridu) is a wind instrument developed by Indigenous Australians of northern Australia potentially within the last 1,500 years and still in widespread use today both in Australia and around the world.
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Digger (soldier)
Digger is a military slang term for soldiers from Australia and New Zealand.
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Diminutive
A diminutive is a word that has been modified to convey a slighter degree of its root meaning, to convey the smallness of the object or quality named, or to convey a sense of intimacy or endearment.
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Diminutives in Australian English
Diminutive forms of words are commonly used in every-day Australian English.
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Dingo
The dingo (Canis familiaris or Canis familiaris dingo or Canis lupus dingo or Canis dingo) is a type of feral dog native to Australia.
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East Midlands
The East Midlands is one of nine official regions of England at the first level of NUTS for statistical purposes.
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Edward Ellis Morris
Edward Ellis Morris (25 December 1843 – 1 January 1902) was an English educationist and miscellaneous writer and latterly in colonial Australia.
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English language
English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.
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Field (agriculture)
In agriculture, a field is an area of land, enclosed or otherwise, used for agricultural purposes such as cultivating crops or as a paddock or other enclosure for livestock.
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Football Federation Australia
Football Federation Australia (FFA) is the governing body of soccer, futsal and beach soccer within Australia.
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Friendship
Friendship is a relationship of mutual affection between people.
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Geordie
Geordie is a nickname for a person from the Tyneside area of North East England, and the dialect spoken by its inhabitants.
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Goidelic languages
The Goidelic or Gaelic languages (teangacha Gaelacha; cànanan Goidhealach; çhengaghyn Gaelgagh) form one of the two groups of Insular Celtic languages, the other being the Brittonic languages.
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Henry Lawson
Henry Archibald Hertzberg Lawson (17 June 1867 – 2 September 1922) was an Australian writer and bush poet.
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International Phonetic Alphabet
The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is an alphabetic system of phonetic notation based primarily on the Latin alphabet.
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Irish language
The Irish language (Gaeilge), also referred to as the Gaelic or the Irish Gaelic language, is a Goidelic language (Gaelic) of the Indo-European language family originating in Ireland and historically spoken by the Irish people.
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Jack Holt (trainer)
"Jack" Holt (14 November 1879 – 10 June 1951) was an Australian horse trainer and philanthropist.
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Jackaroo (trainee)
A jackaroo is a young man (feminine equivalent jillaroo) working on a sheep or cattle station, to gain practical experience in the skills needed to become an owner, overseer, manager, etc.
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Kangaroo
The kangaroo is a marsupial from the family Macropodidae (macropods, meaning "large foot").
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Karl Lentzner
Karl Lentzner (1842–1905) was a German-born linguist who published works pertaining to Australian English vocabulary in the late 19th century.
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Koala
The koala (Phascolarctos cinereus, or, inaccurately, koala bear) is an arboreal herbivorous marsupial native to Australia.
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Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs) is a county in east central England.
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Linens
Linens are fabric household goods intended for daily use, such as bedding, tablecloths and towels.
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List of Australian place names of Aboriginal origin
Place names in Australia have names originating in the Australian Aboriginal languages for three main reasons.
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List of English words of Australian Aboriginal origin
These words of Australian Aboriginal origin include some that are used frequently within Australian-English, such as kangaroo and boomerang.
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Livestock
Livestock are domesticated animals raised in an agricultural setting to produce labor and commodities such as meat, eggs, milk, fur, leather, and wool.
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Macquarie Dictionary
The Macquarie Dictionary is a dictionary of Australian English.
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Mullet (haircut)
The mullet is a hairstyle that is short at the front and sides, and long in the back.
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Neighbours
Neighbours is an Australian television soap opera.
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Norman Lindsay
Norman Alfred William Lindsay (22 February 1879 – 21 November 1969) was an Australian artist, etcher, sculptor, writer, editorial cartoonist, scale modeller, and an accomplished amateur boxer.
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North America
North America is a continent entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere; it is also considered by some to be a northern subcontinent of the Americas.
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Outback
The Outback is the vast, remote interior of Australia.
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Polynesian languages
The Polynesian languages are a language family spoken in geographical Polynesia and on a patchwork of outliers from south central Micronesia to small islands off the northeast of the larger islands of the southeast Solomon Islands and sprinkled through Vanuatu.
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Pub
A pub, or public house, is an establishment licensed to sell alcoholic drinks, which traditionally include beer (such as ale) and cider.
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Rattail (haircut)
A rattail is a hair style that is characterized by a long "tail"-like element of hair growing downward from the back of the head.
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Rhyming slang
Rhyming slang is a form of slang word construction in the English language that uses rhyme.
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River
A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river.
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Rugby league
Rugby league football is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field.
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Rugby union
Rugby union, commonly known in most of the world as rugby, is a contact team sport which originated in England in the first half of the 19th century.
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Scouse
Scouse (also, in academic sources, called Liverpool English or Merseyside English) is an accent and dialect of English found primarily in the Metropolitan county of Merseyside, and closely associated with the city of Liverpool.
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Sea
A sea is a large body of salt water that is surrounded in whole or in part by land.
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Send 'er down, Hughie!
Send 'er down, Hughie!, sometimes Send her down, Hughie! or Send it down, Hughie!, is an idiomatic Australian phrase uttered in response to the onset of rain.
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Shepherd's Bush
Shepherd's Bush is a district of west London, England, within the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham.
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Spike Milligan
Terence Alan Milligan, (16 April 1918 – 27 February 2002), known as Spike Milligan, was a British-Irish comedian, writer, poet, playwright and actor.
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Stream
A stream is a body of water with surface water flowing within the bed and banks of a channel.
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Strine
Strine is a term coined in 1964 and subsequently used to describe a broad accent of Australian English.
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The Australian National Dictionary
The Australian National Dictionary: Australian Words and Their Origins is a historical dictionary of Australian English, recording 16,000 words, phrases and meanings of Australian origin and use.
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The bush
"The bush" is a term used for rural, undeveloped land or country areas in certain countries.
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The Newcastle Herald
The Newcastle Herald (branded as The Herald) is a local tabloid newspaper published daily, Monday to Saturday, in Newcastle, New South Wales, the largest non-capital city in Australia.
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The News (Adelaide)
The News was an afternoon daily tabloid newspaper in the city of Adelaide, South Australia that had its origins in 1869, and finally ceased circulation in 1992.
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Turrbal language
Turrubal (Turubul), also known as Yagara (Jagara / Jagera), is an extinct language of Queensland.
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Wormwood Scrubs
Wormwood Scrubs, known locally as The Scrubs (or simply Scrubs), is an open space located in the north-eastern corner of the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham in west London.
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Yob (slang)
Yob is a slang word used in the United Kingdom.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_English_vocabulary
