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Ah, Jason...

Cokie Roberts is my hero.  And if she says it, it must be true.  (Anyone looking for a good autobiographical book should read her latest, _We Are Our Mother's Daughters_.)

My favourite, er... favorite example of the Aussie/American language difference is whining v. whinging.  It's one of those few times where I wish that I could steal the Aussie word and make it my own.  But then people would say that I was putting on airs.  Using phrases that are unnatural to me.  And I, for one, would never do that.

Cheers,
Cecilia.  
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On Thu, 19 Aug 1999 10:45:15   jason varsoke wrote:

>> > Of course I'm feeling a little bit drizzy* today.  
>> > 
>> > * just learned this Aussie specific word.
>> 
>On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Camille Scaysbrook wrote:
>> Drizzy??? Who told you that one? I ask because I never heard it before in
>> my life (then again, you gotta remember that Sydney to Perth is like New
>> York to Russia - I'm always hearing such things).
>
>Hmmm.  Heard it on NPR.  Coakie Roberts was interviewing the creator of a
>new dictionary that has all types of English words from different dialects
>of English (Aussie, Brit, American, Brooklyn, etc).  Drizzy was supposed
>to be Aussie for frantic.  Oh well.
>
>-j  
>
>


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