(07-18-2021, 11:40 PM)Bally002 Wrote: Scran is an interesting one for me. In Aussie navy terms it's an acronym for "Shit Cooked by the Royal Australian Navy".
I believe and if memory serves me correct the real term comes from RN years ago meaning an issue of "Sultanas, Currents, Raisins and Nuts"
to the crew in rough weather or trying times. Saved firing up the galley. The 'head' (ship's dunny) was busy afterwards...
Wow...! that's genuinely interesting. It makes one wonder what long-term effects such international communication
has on different languages -as well as English. There always seems to a pragmatic reason for an odd word that sadly,
gets lost in time.
Thank you.
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In Omegalogo's list, I see many that seem to derive from the past in England, but there many that I'd presume are
unique to Australia.
'Bogan' -redneck or somebody acting oddly.
Could this be a corrupted version of the slang 'bogging', a term to mean smelly, left unkempt?
Maybe even a corruption of the word 'Bogle' -meaning scarecrow or another distorted Northumbrian word
from the colloquial title 'Boggart' derived from 'Bogie' or 'Bogie-man'.
I find this all this fascinating!
'Yakka' – work. Another rural term used in the past in areas of Britain that farmers often named for their act
of removing turnip leaves from the edible taproot. One 'yaks' a turnip with a small sickle.
Yous – (youse) plural of you. This expression is still used in the North-Eastern areas of England, but pronounced
as 'Yoose' to mean a collective.
It needs more looking into -methinks!
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