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[greennotebook]

Linguists put the shine on Strine: "Try these new words, in the Macquarie Dictionary, for today's language lesson: credit card tart, tanorexia, salad dodger, floordrobe, silent disco, lady garden, Chindia, carbon footprint, grapple tackle." (Of these new Australian words, I myself have only ever heard "carbon footprint".)

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Comments

[ashamel]

I'd seen lady garden before, in the Herald no less.

[kateorman]

... blimey!