1. Australia's English
It is suggested that the English spoken in
Australia is due to the forced transport of a convict population and
to volutanry immigration by those desperate or daring enough to j
ourney, these were atural revels, people who didn't knew their pla
ce in the world
2. The word swag
Swag was underworld slang in the 17th and
18th centuries, for thieves it was' loot and it was later transmuted in Aut
ralia to the bag carried by the itinerant worker (Jolly swagman) of the na
tional song, 'Waltzing Matilda'.
3.
4. More words
• Sheila
• Larrikins this one derives into Larrikinism
Australian English is inditinsguishable from British English. Only a
very few usages are shared with US English.
5. Pidgin English
• Pidgin is a grammatically simplified means of communication that
develops between two or more groups that do not have a language in
common: typically, a mixture of simplified languages or a simplified
primary language with other languages' elements included. It is most
commonly employed in situations such as trade, or where both
groups speak languages different from the language of the country in
which they reside (but where there is no common language between
the groups).
