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Strine is a term coined in 1964〔The Oxford C ompanion to the English Language, Oxford University Press (1992), p. 990 (ISBN 0-19-214183-X)〕 and subsequently used to describe a broad accent of Australian English. The term is a syncope, derived from a shortened phonetic rendition of the pronunciation of the word "Australian" in an exaggerated Broad Australian accent, drawing upon the tendency of this accent to run words together in a form of liaison.〔Chris Roberts, Heavy Words Lightly Thrown: The Reason Behind Rhyme, Thorndike Press, 2006 (ISBN 0-7862-8517-6)〕 It was the subject of humorous columns published in the ''Sydney Morning Herald'' from the mid-1960s. Alastair Ardoch Morrison, under the Strine pseudonym of Afferbeck Lauder (a syncope for "Alphabetical Order"), wrote a song "With Air Chew" ("Without You") in 1965 followed by a series of books - ''Let Stalk Strine'' (1965), ''Nose Tone Unturned'' (1967), ''Fraffly Well Spoken'' (1968) and ''Fraffly Suite'' (1969). An example from one of the books: 'Eye-level arch play devoisters ...' ("I'll have a large plate of oysters"). In October 2009, Text Publishing Company, Melbourne, re-published all four books in an omnibus edition.〔 〕 The naturalist and TV presenter Steve Irwin was once referred to as the person who "talked Strine like no other contemporary personality".〔(Freakish end to a wild life ) – ''The Age''〕 ==See also== * Australian English * Diminutives in Australian English * Monica Dickens 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Strine」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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