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that has gained traction in more recent years, although it can still be heard among some populations. In written English, Strine is still found more frequently.
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was once referred to as the person who "talked Strine like no other contemporary personality".
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accent, drawing upon the tendency of this accent to run syllables together in a form of
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in 1964 when the accent was the subject of humorous columns published in the
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Strine and Amusing Language from the Land Down Under
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Heavy Words Lightly Thrown: The Reason Behind Rhyme
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/ˈstrn/
Australian English
syncope
Broad Australian
liaison
coined
Sydney Morning Herald
Alastair Ardoch Morrison
pseudonym
Afferbeck Lauder
Text Publishing
Steve Irwin
Diminutives in Australian English
Monica Dickens
How to Talk Australians
"Google Books Ngram Viewer"
"Google Ngram Viewer"
ISBN
0-7862-8517-6
ISBN
0-19-214183-X
Strine
ISBN
9781921656804
"Freakish end to a wild life"
ISBN
1877834009
With Air Chew
National Archives of Australia
Some examples of Strine

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