Forget pints and schooners. How about a butcher, a pony or a Bishop Barker?
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David AstleCrossword compiler, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age
April 22, 2021 7.15pm
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Stone the crows! Starve the lizards! My brain has been quarantined in dusty vernacular all day, from bushfire blonde (a redhead) to Woolloomooloo upper-cut (a knee to the groin). To skew the L.P. Hartley quote: “The past is a foreign country; they say things differently there.”
Eighty years ago, a mangle was a bicycle, jonick meant genuine, while colonial goose was actually mutton stuffed with sage. See what I mean? That last sentence reads as modern nonsense, but history doesn’t care how its language will sound a century later.
Forget pints and schooners How about a butcher, a pony or a Bishop Barker?
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