Strine, also spelled Stryne (), is Australian slang for a broad

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accent. Someone who speaks Strine is called an

Ocker The term "ocker" is used both as a noun and adjective for an Australian who speaks in Strine, a broad Australian accent, and acts in a rough and uncultivated manner. Richard Neville defined the ocker positively as being "about conviviality: co ...

. In contemporary Australian spoken English, the term ''Strine'' is being replaced by ''Strayan'', a word gaining traction in more recent years (although Strine is still used among some populations). In written English, Strine remains more frequently used. The term is a syncope, derived from a shortened phonetic rendition of the pronunciation of the word "Australian" in an exaggerated Broad Australian accent, drawing upon the tendency of this accent to run syllables together in a form of

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. The term was coined in 1964 when the accent was the subject of humorous columns published in the ''

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'' from the mid-1960s.

Alastair Ardoch Morrison Afferbeck Lauder was the pseudonym used by Alistair Ardoch Morrison (21 September 1911 – 15 March 1998), an Australian graphic artist and author who in the 1960s documented Strine in the song "With Air Chew" and a series of books beginning with ' ...

, under the Strine

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Afferbeck Lauder Afferbeck Lauder was the pseudonym used by Alistair Ardoch Morrison (21 September 1911 – 15 March 1998), an Australian graphic artist and author who in the 1960s documented Strine in the song "With Air Chew" and a series of books beginning with ' ...

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for "Alphabetical Order"), wrote a song "With Air Chew" ("Without You") in 1965 followed by a series of books—''Let Stalk Strine'' (1965), ''Nose Tone Unturned'' (1967), ''Fraffly Well Spoken'' (1968), and ''Fraffly Suite'' (1969). An example from one of the books: "Eye-level arch play devoisters ..." ("I'll have a large plate of oysters"). In 2009,

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, Melbourne, re-published all four books in an omnibus edition. The late environmentalist and TV presenter

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was once referred to as the person who "talked Strine like no other contemporary personality"."Freakish end to a wild life"
''The Age''

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* Lauder, Afferbeck (A. A. Morrison) ''Let Stalk Strine'', Sydney, 1965, page 9 * Steber, David. ''Strine and Amusing Language from the Land Down Under'', Steber & Associates, 1990. .

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Some examples of Strine
(includes audio files) Australian English Australian humour 1960s neologisms

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