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Lost for Words : Australia's Lost Language in Words and Stories

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Strike a light! Things are crook in Tallarook! Hugh Lunn has been collecting old words and phrases that are no longer a part of our everyday language, and has brought them together in a book in a totally unique, informative and humorous way. Divided into themes (such as Mother's advice, Things about the house, Argy bargy, Trouble at work) words and phrases are placed into context in mini-stories that will have you chuckling and remembering a time when these sayings were a rich part of your life.… (mere)

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Former journalist Hugh Lunn puts together a compendium of vernacular Australian English from the 1940s and 50s. I remember them all, and while I was aware that idiom had moved on, I had not realised how much that was distinctively Australian has been lost. Our kids now get much of their current slang from California, rather than from our grandparents. Read Feb 2012. (

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Strike a light! Things are crook in Tallarook! Hugh Lunn has been collecting old words and phrases that are no longer a part of our everyday language, and has brought them together in a book in a totally unique, informative and humorous way. Divided into themes (such as Mother's advice, Things about the house, Argy bargy, Trouble at work) words and phrases are placed into context in mini-stories that will have you chuckling and remembering a time when these sayings were a rich part of your life.

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