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Try your luck at this Australian English quiz

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How good is your Australian English?

There is an altogether different version of English being spoken Down Under. Thanks to “Crocodile” Dundee, lots of non-Aussies are familiar with some of the slang, including crikey (an interjection expressing surprise), sheila (an informal term for a girl or woman), and barbie (an abbreviation of barbecue). But there is so much more to the language variation than what you’ve heard from Paul Hogan.

How familiar are you with the version of English spoken down under? Try your luck at this Australian English quiz!

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Comments

  • What do you reckon, when all varieties of English will diverge so much so that we can call them a different languages?

    • Harald Forkbeard

      Yours has already diverged beyond recognition due to too much spend on cheap dope.

      Time to detox.

  • Steph Liow

    I’m Australian and I hardly know any of this “Australian English”!

    • pinklemonade

      I knew it!

    • Faryal Ali

      i didn’t answer any right!

  • Vaughan McCue

    I got ’em all right but we don’t use the terms much. I think bingle, car crash is more an eastern seaboard comment.my neighbour has a sign on the front door dijabringabeer or similar. did you bring a beer. Commonly said on the telephone. “Just kick the door when you get here.” Implying that you better have two arms full of beer and unable to open the door for yourself. I just made a photo instead at neighbours door.

  • Mai Ha Bullard

    I’m half-Australian and I only got 40 percent. Boohoo! Must work harder…

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