Kangaroo's Comments & Wallaby Words

by Jonsen, Helen; Colquhoun, John

• ISBN13: 9780781807371
• ISBN10: 0781807379
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-06-01
• Publisher: Hippocrene Books

Summary

An ideal book for those interested in things and people Australian, as well as travellers to Australia.

Table of Contents

Author's Note	xi
Preface	xv
How to Use this Book	xix
PART ONE	1	(108)
Speaking of Australia	3	(10)
Clipped Words	5	(1)
Rhyming Slang	6	(3)
Words of a Different Colour	9	(2)
Summary & Reminders	11	(2)
The Tucker Bag	13	(24)
Tea, Tea, or Tea?	18	(3)
Roadhouse Tucker	21	(2)
The Milk Bar	23	(4)
Inside the Pub	27	(3)
Bugs & Crayfish	30	(5)
Afters & Sweets	35	(2)
G'Day Mate!	37	(10)
Waltzing Matilda	40	(1)
Bushrangers	41	(3)
More Occupations	44	(1)
The Aussie Battler	45	(2)
Aussie Subcultures	47	(10)
Station Life & the Bush Telegraph	48	(5)
Country Clothes & City Fashions	53	(2)
Gifts from the Aborigines	55	(2)
Dinky-di Australian	57	(8)
The Never-Never	57	(1)
Lots of Blue	58	(1)
Fair Dinkum	59	(2)
Happy as Larry	61	(1)
Rafferty's Rules	62	(1)
To Whinge is to Whine	63	(1)
Hello and Good-bye	64	(1)
Getting Through the Day	65	(10)
Jumpers and Windcheaters	65	(1)
School Days	66	(2)
Around the House	68	(4)
Yank Tanks	72	(3)
Aussie Sport & Games	75	(16)
Footy	77	(3)
Cricket	80	(2)
Gambling	82	(2)
Surfies, Yachties, & Co.	84	(2)
The Longest Summer	86	(3)
More Games	89	(1)
Kids' Stuff	90	(1)
Thoughts on Sports	90	(1)
People Aussies Meet & Places Aussies Go	91	(6)
A Visit to Honkers!	94	(1)
Qantas	94	(1)
Inside Oz	95	(2)
Kangas, Koalas, & More	97	(12)
Furless Friends	104	(5)
PART TWO: The Glossaries	109	(52)
Key to Dictionaries	110	(1)
American-Australian	111	(20)
Australian American	131	(30)
PART THREE: About Australia	161
Travel Information: Planning for the Millennium	163
Information Connections	165
Ideas Stage	166
Seasons & Fares	167
Money Questions	169
More Planning Information	170
Month by Month	175
Packing Stage	180
Further Reading	182
End Notes	184