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the story behind Fair dinkum is in the time of the gold rush after work people would go to the pub but when those who go there late the beer was gone so a sign was put up fair drinking but people with a accent pronounce the word fair drinking it sounded like FAIR DINKUM
My Grandmother once told me after she'd had a few bottles of wine (normal) that "you can beat an egg but you can't beet-a-root." She's now 83, still a pisshead, and continues to spew out filthy food-based puns like that that at opportune moments, Bless.
@@NannaTina Yes people in the country and older generation still use it. The younger generation thinks it cool to shorten a saying. The country people have stronger aussie accents and city people are all mixed up.
As an Australian, I can't say I know anyone who actually says "Facey", lol. Maybe my friends aren't camp enough, though, lol. I hang around a lot of "bogans".
I should not take a drink of anything while watching J&L videos. I almost spit my coffee all over when Joel said "Visit our personal channels...I have a dog & Lia has...... a new hair style..." Sooooo funny all the way through!!😂😆
Hahhahaa was so gonna say that, "dont worry, old mates havin a sooky la la" i find a lot of aussies are larrikins and most of the slang is in form of joking around... tradies (construction workers) start alot of it "she'll be right mate, looks good from my house, she's a bit on the piss, whens smoko, looks a bit 'how ya goin', old mate..." the list goes on eternally
You guys obviously had fun filming this video. I watched it twice because I enjoyed the word play so much, haha! Thanks for the primer on Aussie slang. Now, go have some Prosecco!
Ripper video! Can't stop laughing. As an Aussie had to laugh when Lia said she was going to get a "tinnie" which is (usually) a small, metal boat. Good to be reminded what words we use over here that no one else will understand
In the 1960's and 1970's a "tinnie" was a very common expression in Victoria, New South wales and Queensland to mean "can". . . as in can of beer. "Gonna sink a few tinnies with my mates on the weekend" (Gonna drink a few cans of beer with my pals on the weekend) It may have also been used in other states other than those I mentioned. . Anyway, it has slowly faded in use and you never hear it any more in that context. . Just to mean a small aluminium boat
Same in Australia... good and loud. A ripper is usually accompanied moments later by simultaneous laughter and disgust and the phrase "Who dropped their guts?"
As an Australian, this kills me! A lot of Aussies do the ie/y ending on words like choccy Biccy and exy. O endings are common too like many male nicknames (Tommo) Most of these only the 'bogan' Australians say (equivalent to the British Chav) or the older generations. You'll hardly hear these in city Sydney or Melbourne... absolutely love this vid 10/10 😂
Very entertaining indeed! Watching this vid with a true Aussie and we're cracking up! On Bobby Burns night. Too much fun! Thanks mates for such a good time! L&C 👍 ♥️😘 🇬🇧🇦🇺🐨
My Legends have done it again. I can't help but watch your videos. Nothing I can comment on today except to say that this video was hilarious. I can't wait for the next one.
As an Australian I absolutely loved this video Joel and Lia!!! ❤🤣 I have got mistaken for being English by Americans, I think to the American ear the accents sound similar!
I usually have to hear a few sentences to be sure of the difference. It depends on the speaker though because some are obviously English or Australian immediately.
Please viewers, those thinking of using any of this slang on your next Australian visit you’ll look uncouth and uncultured. This is the stereotype language we see on TV that tries to show the character is Australian and we just cringe. That being said, you both are clever and probably know this. You are having so much fun and I do love your videos. A dedicated subscriber from, Melbourne.
There is a couple of lines in one of the old Goon Shows where Neddy Seagoon ( Harry Secombe ) is lead out into the desert by an Australian guide, ( Peter Sellars ). Neddy asks the guide, "Have you lead me out into the desert to die?" To which the guide replies, "Arrgh, yeah, mate - to die or termorra."
I think how Lia says breakfast is so cute! Maybe annoying to others, but knowing me, I'll probably start saying breakfast like that too! It's crazy how many things I've picked up on & say differently since watching Joel & Lia in 2018.
I love Australia. I want to go so bad. I have a very old mate that lives in Melbourne. We used to play in a band at University here in Tennessee together. He got me addicted to Vegemite. I just made a cheesecake with it. Lol!
Vegemite may just be top of the list of the worst creation ever to be imposed on innocent hungry folks. It's right up there with the time I was in England and given a sandwich using deli meat and they used peanut butter on the bread first. I remember taking a bite and thinking "omg I'm here for a month! I'm going to starve to death" lol
@@meesa8468 It's definitely an acquired taste. I thought it was Nutella the first time it was served to me. Now I love it. It grosses my wife and kids out. Lol
@sovereignty rules 🤣👍No. I get it by the case at World Market. The first time I tried it I spit it right out. Horrible! But I came home one night after a show really drunk and ate the whole jar. Now I put that stuff on everything.
As an American I've always been jealous of the Brtish abbreviations, (like telly and ciggy, so cute!). So I especially enjoyed that one. If you two did a whole vid speaking only in abbreviations I'd love it. 😁
3:03. . . Fair Dinkum. . . . The closest translation would be "Real" or "genuine" or "really" or "true" As in "My mate swallowed a live fish! Fair dinkum!". . . (My mate swallowed a live fish! Really!") Or. . . "This is a fair dinkum Rolex!". . . . (This is a genuine Rolex!") Or. . . . "I'm going to France next month" Friend replies "Fair dinkum?". . . . ("Really?") Or. . . "I fair dinkum told the boss to shove the job up his arse". . . (I genuinely told my boss to shove the job up his arse) I don't know if this is fair dinkum or not. . . But the story I heard of the origins of this expression were from the goldfields of Australia in the 1800's. . There apparently was an expression that went something like "Fair trading and fair drinking". . . Meaning fair business practices and fair social interaction (??) In other words . . a person who was genuine or real in their actions and conduct. . Anyway, it is said that the Chinese immigrants who had come to find their fortune on the goldfields incorrectly pronounced "Fair drinking" as "Fair dinkum" Others say it was perhaps the Aborigines who mispronounced "Fair drinking" as "Fair dinkum" So then the other goldfield people made fun of it and copied the mispronounced version as "Fair dinkum" to mean "Real, genuine or true". . and it's this version that has stuck until today.
In Spanish we say, "No, pues si. Si, pues no." LOL Also, my ex put y at the end of everything. He'd tell the kids, with a stern look, "Do you want a spanky? No? then go seepy." It was ridiculous! LOL
Fair dinkum really means that a person is genuinely ,sincerely and honestly telling the truth (to the best that they know) and are not trying to lie or decieve to get their own way...
Afrikaans also does that "yeahnah" thing, we say "janee" which is basically just a way of placing emphasis on how much we agree. We won't use it to say "yes", we'll use it to say sort of "I completely agree".
You'll probably notice that quite a lot of our slang is very similar to the Cockney rhyming slang in some parts. Other parts are convenience or necessity. The word "Root"... I find it rather strange that American's don't understand it... I mean, it's used in a very old rock song from the 1950's - Little Richard's 'Tutti Frutti'! My whole family is from South Australia and, according to my dad, when he and my step-mother went to Sydney, some Sydney locals thought they were English because we have a more refined accent. (Adelaide was the first non-convict settlement in Australia.)
The diminutive, casual y, ie. Footy, cossie (swimming costume), walkies (dog walks), vegies, ciggy, pollie (politician), chippie (carpenter), sparkie (electrician), firey (firefighter) etc. I'm adding these as I watch, so there could be more. It's Australia Day holiday today, commemorating the 26 January, 1788 landing led by Governor Phillip, with shiploads of convicts, troops and some settlers.
@@brucewilliams8714 I've never heard pollie or firey in the UK, but all the others you mentioned I've heard a lot over the years, some more than others. Chocy biccy, or just biccy is also hardly uncommon here.
Love you two! Yeah nah, we don't say Facey. But we do abbreviate a lot of words and stick a Y on the end, although some times we add an O. Petrol (or service) station is shortened to servo, the liquor store (or bottle shop) is the bottle-o. Fair dinkum means genuine or real, and is quite old fashioned. It's usually only said by politicians trying to sound cool. Ripper is a bit old fashioned but I've always liked it and root is definitely crass.
@@ThoseTwoBrits1 I was over there in August 2016 - January 2017 and the first time my uncle said "Pommy" and "Barbie" I was like "What?" I automatically thought of a barbie doll on a BBQ and damn. It was because I always took my jacket everywhere I was called a pom by my uncle Do you have any memories of Australia?
This is AMAZING. I'm Aussie and new to this channel but all these vids are so funny. I personally don't use alot of slang like Fair dinkim and ripper. I use more basic ones and these vids just make me want to use more slang to just annoy my friends.
Gday As a half British and a half Aussie who was born in Australia i found this video funny and its my first time watching a video of urs so keep up the good work as for covid19 its rooted a lot of things for everyone so we all need a laugh or everyone would go to the bottle o for beer or wine
Chuck a sickie. I love that one. :D Oooh, now I can add Starry Bee's to my lexicon, to go with Mickey Dee's. Haha - the Aussie's always laugh at us Yanks because we root for our favorite teams. *snort*.
I just subscribed a couple weeks ago you guys are so adorably endearing with each other. Even when you're cursing at each other I love it. I feel like I'm sitting across from you on a couch laughing as well. Very fun.💞
A lot of our slang from the convict days was used to confuse the traps (guards) in charge and used a lot of gealic, welsh and Scottish words just to make it harder.
sook is actually short for sooky la la 😂💖 Brings back childhood memories of adults saying "Stop being such a sooky la la" Also I think most australians would appreciate ur candidness lol😝😂
In regards to "rooting", I can only guess that it's somehow related to the olden times phrase, "I want to plow your field" which was a farming metaphor for sex.
When I first started doing business in Australia, I panicked. I didn't understand A LOT of what they were saying. I ran to a book store, at home, and found a book entitled "Stroin" (Australian spoken by Australians). Some of my favorites: POM (Prisoner of His Majesty) = a Brit. WINGHER = a complainer. MIDDIE & SCHOONER = beer glasses
The word "root" for having sex has been around for decades. In the US that word is used a lot to describe how someone is cheering/backing/favoring a particular sporting team. That is why when we hear someone comment at a football match that the all girls cheerleaders are "rooting for the team" we are all in stitches. Crude? to you, but somehow it entered our dictionary of aussie slang. The shortening of words is something we have been good at since the country was colonized & probably originated from cockney slang. The classic phrase is "jeet yair dew" which translates to "Did you eat? Yair, did you" Say it fast & all will be revealed.
I took a sickie, had avo toast for my brekkie, had a sanga at the chippies in the arvo and headed to the bottle-o to buy some exy cab sav. If you were buying or selling stuff online, people use a site called Gumtree and they're called gummies (by the site). Also, Maccas, not Mickey D's or McD for MacDonalds Aussies have a specific set of skills acquired over a century of living down under
Also with relation to expense, instead of saying its a bit exy if somthing is expensive, you can also say "its a bit rich" There are 2 books availible from the ABC shop called lost for words and words fail me, which goes through the historical use of aussie slang from the early years till today...the books are written in the form of a story with explanations at the end of every chapter for the slang n their origin nmeanings....
The "nahyeh" and "yehnah" reminds me of when I was in high school (50 years ago). I had a friend called Nick, and whenever we were together, friends to come to me and say "Nick ... er ... Nat!", or to him "Nat .. er ... Nick!" Finally I would say "Look! He's 'Natnick' and I'm 'Nicknat!'" In the US, "ripper" is a hot dog, which is fried in a deep fryer until it rips open. These are common in New Jersey. I also love Australia and have been doing research to go there, hopefully within the next three or four years.
Liam Harrison are you pulling my leg!? 😃💕 there’s totally a difference..... I’d rather party with an Aussie..... there’s an implied good time in the way they say things 😍🥳🤩💕💥💥💥
@@Liamshavingfun I watch a lot of Australian tv on Netflix..... there's a cool way they say the word "no" for example, it doesn't sound like a 2 letter word when they say it 🤗 can't explain it, can't say it either... no matter how hard I try 🤔😕😄
Fair Dinkum can be used in many ways from expressing exasperation at some fools antics in front of you as you shake your head, much like saying "you've got to be kidding, seriously" Fair Dinkum can also be used to express that a certain thing that you are talking about is straight up & serious, no joke.
Aussie slang and Brit slang are always entertaining...love Aussies and Brits...great fun video..laughed the whole time...now to sign up for Squarespace...❤ 2 U both!...and prayers to Australia during this crazy time..🙏
"Rooting" for sex makes sense when you consider that the term for sex for certain mammals (like deer, sheep, camels, and others) is "to rut" and those animals that rut are said to be rutting.
Gidday Joel and Lia, I am from Australia, and I had to laugh because some of those slang words aren't really used much anymore, but again, it all depends on who you are speaking to. I can think of a couple more for you to use e.g. beauty, but say it "bewty" means fantastic, or "you little bottler" means you did great. Sandwich is "sanga", bottle shop for alcohol is called the "the bottlo". I laughed when you said root, haven't heard that for ages, but it is true, another saying for sex is "getting your end in" lmao :-) For tomato sauce, I don't know how many other people call it, but I call it "blood", BBQ is a "barbie". As you both love Australia, I love England, even though I haven't been there. I absolutely LOOOOOOOOOOOVE the cockney accent and I think it's very sexy. I would love to live in England, and I'm thinking of moving there, but don't really know where to begin in researching it, but I have plenty of time, so I'll just take my time and look up stuff on it. Love your channel. Later aligator xx
Definitely enjoyed it ! Love all the happy fun in every video. love the laughs and giggles. Australians are well admired and loved in the US. The cultural differences are spice and the pleasures of the internet , now that we can talk around the world instantly. RICH&2 carnivorous kitties LA.CALIF USA.
The 2 phrases my ex girlfriend hated were “I’m going down to the local for a schooner and a countery, then have a bash on the pokies” and “Got to shake hands with the unemployed”
Adding “Y” sounds like baby talk...as if you’re talking to a little kid...lol. If a man talked to me like that I might stop and see if he was being undermining or not. 🥴
Omgosh I loved this video. Very funny. I didn't realise us Aussies had so many slang words uniquely Australian. I know we have some the same as Britain. You make me proud to be an Aussie 😊
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Aussies only say root in very limited ways mostly saying it like ‘fuck that bird was a good root’
the story behind Fair dinkum is in the time of the gold rush after work people would go to the pub but when those who go there late the beer was gone so a sign was put up fair drinking but people with a accent pronounce the word fair drinking it sounded like FAIR DINKUM
where are your kids
I’m taking piss out a yah,
American "Yeah, no" is basically saying "I hear you, but I don't agree with you. So the "Yeah" is simply acknowledgment.
Bell's Theorem agree
Yep, same in Australia.
Nah, yeah nah... same same but different.
Yes
True!
#American
As an Aussie this made me laugh so much 😂
Aw yay!!!
yes
My Grandmother once told me after she'd had a few bottles of wine (normal) that "you can beat an egg but you can't beet-a-root." She's now 83, still a pisshead, and continues to spew out filthy food-based puns like that that at opportune moments, Bless.
Classic J&L content. So funny 😂 Australians sure know how to have fun with the english language. I love how they shorten words. So fun.
Dinkum = genuine, true, honest, etc. More used as a query: Are you (they) fair dinkum? But not so much in use these days.
I use it more often than I realised, but maybe it’s cos I’m from the bush.
@@NannaTina Yes people in the country and older generation still use it. The younger generation thinks it cool to shorten a saying. The country people have stronger aussie accents and city people are all mixed up.
As an Australian, I can't say I know anyone who actually says "Facey", lol. Maybe my friends aren't camp enough, though, lol. I hang around a lot of "bogans".
What's bogans
😂 bogans describing someone who is uneducated Americans would probably call hill billies or if your British riff raff.
@@Philly94M I think the closest thing to bogan in Britain would be chav.
@Anne Heinrich I'm in country vic and haven't heard anyone say it yet, maybe it's different state to state
I should not take a drink of anything while watching J&L videos. I almost spit my coffee all over when Joel said "Visit our personal channels...I have a dog & Lia has......
a new hair style..." Sooooo funny all the way through!!😂😆
I just loled
"Ripper" was very popular in the 1980's/early '90's. Virtually nobody in Australia says that anymore.
When I would visit my bogan family around Christmas I distinctly remember hearing the phrase "sooky la la" thrown around on a daily basis.
Yep, that’s definitely a thing.
Hahhahaa was so gonna say that, "dont worry, old mates havin a sooky la la" i find a lot of aussies are larrikins and most of the slang is in form of joking around... tradies (construction workers) start alot of it "she'll be right mate, looks good from my house, she's a bit on the piss, whens smoko, looks a bit 'how ya goin', old mate..." the list goes on eternally
You guys obviously had fun filming this video. I watched it twice because I enjoyed the word play so much, haha! Thanks for the primer on Aussie slang. Now, go have some Prosecco!
Ripper video! Can't stop laughing.
As an Aussie had to laugh when Lia said she was going to get a "tinnie" which is (usually) a small, metal boat. Good to be reminded what words we use over here that no one else will understand
Tinnie is a small aluminum boat here in Canada also
In the 1960's and 1970's a "tinnie" was a very common expression in Victoria, New South wales and Queensland to mean "can". . . as in can of beer.
"Gonna sink a few tinnies with my mates on the weekend" (Gonna drink a few cans of beer with my pals on the weekend)
It may have also been used in other states other than those I mentioned. .
Anyway, it has slowly faded in use and you never hear it any more in that context. . Just to mean a small aluminium boat
We do the "yeahno" and "noyeah" in midwest USA
We did it in NY too and everyone does it i Florida. They had me laughing acting it out.
@@LlyleHunter and in CA
Bruce Solomon I was about to say deff do that in Florida lol
Nah yeah nah, they kind of buggered that one up.
Everywhere in USA I’m pretty sure!
Edit: I’m in North Carolina
Ripper is a type of fart in America. Leslie Nielsen’s gravestone reads “Let er rip”.
Can be painful, if not executed perfectly!
😅 Good on him!👍
😂😂😂😂
Same in Australia... good and loud. A ripper is usually accompanied moments later by simultaneous laughter and disgust and the phrase "Who dropped their guts?"
As an Australian, this kills me! A lot of Aussies do the ie/y ending on words like choccy Biccy and exy. O endings are common too like many male nicknames (Tommo)
Most of these only the 'bogan' Australians say (equivalent to the British Chav) or the older generations. You'll hardly hear these in city Sydney or Melbourne... absolutely love this vid 10/10 😂
Felicity I think it’s because we’re loosing our Aussie way and being Yankified.😟😭
Go USA USA USA lol
Andre Lommerse say it isn’t so😫..... don’t become Yankified! 😢 love the Badass Aussie spirit 😃💥💕
@@andrelommerse so true and its devastating 😞
Hey! I'm a bogan through and through. I'm also highly educated. We can be both
We say ‘yeah, no’ and ‘no, yeah’ and ‘yeah, no. For sure’ (definitely) in California.
Same here in Florida
I do too. Im in Washington
Very entertaining indeed! Watching this vid with a true Aussie and we're cracking up! On Bobby Burns night. Too much fun! Thanks mates for such a good time! L&C 👍 ♥️😘 🇬🇧🇦🇺🐨
teknekon na Mate! It’s Australia Day 🙃
When you say "chockie," I think of Monty Python's "Crunchy Frog" sketch from Flying Circus.
"Fair dinkum" basically means "honest" or authentic.
My Legends have done it again. I can't help but watch your videos. Nothing I can comment on today except to say that this video was hilarious. I can't wait for the next one.
Oh I needed a good laugh today! Thank you for this! Cheers!
Aw you're so welcome Paula
Our beautiful Lia is glowing!😊
@@Judy_R For sure!!💖
@Lucy! Hehehe!😄
So cutesy-wootsy, ity bity boo! You guys are the best! Very funny 😄💕💥🐿🐧💥
Every time you two get tickled I just 🤣😂🤣😂 with you. You are contagious!
As an Australian I absolutely loved this video Joel and Lia!!! ❤🤣 I have got mistaken for being English by Americans, I think to the American ear the accents sound similar!
As an American, yes they can often sound similar but Aussies' sound more extreme. Lol.
I'm American and I don't think they sound alike at all!
I usually have to hear a few sentences to be sure of the difference. It depends on the speaker though because some are obviously English or Australian immediately.
In the U.S. that sort of happens too, we get it. (yeahnah vs. nahyeah)
Please viewers, those thinking of using any of this slang on your next Australian visit you’ll look uncouth and uncultured. This is the stereotype language we see on TV that tries to show the character is Australian and we just cringe. That being said, you both are clever and probably know this. You are having so much fun and I do love your videos. A dedicated subscriber from, Melbourne.
So true Anne! Hi from Tassie 😊
Yay Felicity, fellow Aussie. 🇦🇺
Thanks Anne for telling it like it is 😊
I’m Australian. I like your channel and you are both great.
Not going to lie watching Joel and Lia is the greatest and 2x speed is even funnier lol
I always end up laughing 🤣🤣😊
I love how they use the word cunt, practically as a term of endearment, rather than as the worst insult you could ever give to an American woman.
I learned all my Australian slang at Outback Steakhouse 30 years ago.
Laughed so hard when she said getting a tinny little does she know we do call a can of piss a tinny
I was laughing so hard this entire video. I swear the neighbors are wondering if I am high😂
In Hong Kong the locals used to make fun of Australians when they'd say : "I came to Hong Kong to die" ( I came to Hong Kong today)
I think you are thinking of New Zealanders
Lolololololololol
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I hear most OZs say today, but instead ei sound it is ia sound
There is a couple of lines in one of the old Goon Shows where Neddy Seagoon ( Harry Secombe ) is lead out into the desert by an Australian guide, ( Peter Sellars ). Neddy asks the guide, "Have you lead me out into the desert to die?" To which the guide replies,
"Arrgh, yeah, mate - to die or termorra."
I'm a Yank married to an Aussie, and nawyeah, this is pretty funny 🙂
I think how Lia says breakfast is so cute! Maybe annoying to others, but knowing me, I'll probably start saying breakfast like that too! It's crazy how many things I've picked up on & say differently since watching Joel & Lia in 2018.
Kimberly K 😀
Very similar to California. No yeah= yes; Yeah no= no; Yeah, no for sure= definitely.
I watched Neighbors back in the late 80s when I lived in Berlin.
I love Australia. I want to go so bad. I have a very old mate that lives in Melbourne. We used to play in a band at University here in Tennessee together. He got me addicted to Vegemite. I just made a cheesecake with it. Lol!
Vegemite may just be top of the list of the worst creation ever to be imposed on innocent hungry folks. It's right up there with the time I was in England and given a sandwich using deli meat and they used peanut butter on the bread first. I remember taking a bite and thinking "omg I'm here for a month! I'm going to starve to death" lol
@@meesa8468 It's definitely an acquired taste. I thought it was Nutella the first time it was served to me. Now I love it. It grosses my wife and kids out. Lol
A Vegemite cheesecake? Sacrilege 😂
@@FionaEm 😂😉
@sovereignty rules 🤣👍No. I get it by the case at World Market. The first time I tried it I spit it right out. Horrible! But I came home one night after a show really drunk and ate the whole jar. Now I put that stuff on everything.
As an American I've always been jealous of the Brtish abbreviations, (like telly and ciggy, so cute!). So I especially enjoyed that one. If you two did a whole vid speaking only in abbreviations I'd love it. 😁
Pick up line that only works in Australia:
Ever tripped over a tree?
How bout a root?
3:03. . . Fair Dinkum. . . . The closest translation would be "Real" or "genuine" or "really" or "true"
As in "My mate swallowed a live fish! Fair dinkum!". . . (My mate swallowed a live fish! Really!")
Or. . . "This is a fair dinkum Rolex!". . . . (This is a genuine Rolex!")
Or. . . . "I'm going to France next month" Friend replies "Fair dinkum?". . . . ("Really?")
Or. . . "I fair dinkum told the boss to shove the job up his arse". . . (I genuinely told my boss to shove the job up his arse)
I don't know if this is fair dinkum or not. . . But the story I heard of the origins of this expression were from the goldfields of Australia in the 1800's. .
There apparently was an expression that went something like "Fair trading and fair drinking". . . Meaning fair business practices and fair social interaction (??)
In other words . . a person who was genuine or real in their actions and conduct. .
Anyway, it is said that the Chinese immigrants who had come to find their fortune on the goldfields incorrectly pronounced "Fair drinking" as "Fair dinkum"
Others say it was perhaps the Aborigines who mispronounced "Fair drinking" as "Fair dinkum"
So then the other goldfield people made fun of it and copied the mispronounced version as "Fair dinkum" to mean "Real, genuine or true". . and it's this version that has stuck until today.
In Spanish we say, "No, pues si. Si, pues no." LOL
Also, my ex put y at the end of everything. He'd tell the kids, with a stern look, "Do you want a spanky? No? then go seepy." It was ridiculous! LOL
Fair dinkum really means that a person is genuinely ,sincerely and honestly telling the truth (to the best that they know) and are not trying to lie or decieve to get their own way...
Afrikaans also does that "yeahnah" thing, we say "janee" which is basically just a way of placing emphasis on how much we agree. We won't use it to say "yes", we'll use it to say sort of "I completely agree".
Aussies are way cool 😎. Love the slang.
We pronounce route as root too. 🐨
America’s do the “yeah no” so much. “Yeah no” means no. “No yeah” means yeah.
You'll probably notice that quite a lot of our slang is very similar to the Cockney rhyming slang in some parts. Other parts are convenience or necessity.
The word "Root"... I find it rather strange that American's don't understand it... I mean, it's used in a very old rock song from the 1950's - Little Richard's 'Tutti Frutti'!
My whole family is from South Australia and, according to my dad, when he and my step-mother went to Sydney, some Sydney locals thought they were English because we have a more refined accent. (Adelaide was the first non-convict settlement in Australia.)
The diminutive, casual y, ie. Footy, cossie (swimming costume), walkies (dog walks), vegies, ciggy, pollie (politician), chippie (carpenter), sparkie (electrician), firey (firefighter) etc. I'm adding these as I watch, so there could be more. It's Australia Day holiday today, commemorating the 26 January, 1788 landing led by Governor Phillip, with shiploads of convicts, troops and some settlers.
@@brucewilliams8714 I've never heard pollie or firey in the UK, but all the others you mentioned I've heard a lot over the years, some more than others. Chocy biccy, or just biccy is also hardly uncommon here.
She is so alike to a friend from the University, even her gestures and smile.
I’m obsessed with Australia too!! I ❤️ their accents :)
Love you two! Yeah nah, we don't say Facey. But we do abbreviate a lot of words and stick a Y on the end, although some times we add an O. Petrol (or service) station is shortened to servo, the liquor store (or bottle shop) is the bottle-o. Fair dinkum means genuine or real, and is quite old fashioned. It's usually only said by politicians trying to sound cool. Ripper is a bit old fashioned but I've always liked it and root is definitely crass.
This ^ 👏👏
This is a good video. I love Australia
Thanks so much! We do too!
@@ThoseTwoBrits1 I was over there in August 2016 - January 2017 and the first time my uncle said "Pommy" and "Barbie" I was like "What?" I automatically thought of a barbie doll on a BBQ and damn. It was because I always took my jacket everywhere I was called a pom by my uncle
Do you have any memories of Australia?
We do struggle with Ausie vs. British accents here in Texas...I can usually figure it out but it takes a bit!!! 🤣🤣🤣
I find British accents are a bit more refined. Smoother on the ear.
You guys are a hoot! Had me in tears with laughter. You made my day.
Adding a "Y" to the end of everything sounds like the baby talk we use with our cats. :)
This is AMAZING. I'm Aussie and new to this channel but all these vids are so funny. I personally don't use alot of slang like Fair dinkim and ripper. I use more basic ones and these vids just make me want to use more slang to just annoy my friends.
OMG! Could you imagine how this video would have been if you were drinking prosecco instead of water? Absolutely loved this! ❤❤❤👏👏👏🐨🐨🐨
Gday As a half British and a half Aussie who was born in Australia i found this video funny and its my first time watching a video of urs so keep up the good work as for covid19 its rooted a lot of things for everyone so we all need a laugh or everyone would go to the bottle o for beer or wine
Chuck a sickie. I love that one. :D Oooh, now I can add Starry Bee's to my lexicon, to go with Mickey Dee's. Haha - the Aussie's always laugh at us Yanks because we root for our favorite teams. *snort*.
Nahyeah! Hand fart...sure. This vidy's crackin'! Love watching you two rif off on another! 😂
Thank you for finally doing a clip on Australian Slang. Bloody loved it 🇦🇺
I use "yeah no." and "No yeah" all the time.
I just subscribed a couple weeks ago you guys are so adorably endearing with each other. Even when you're cursing at each other I love it. I feel like I'm sitting across from you on a couch laughing as well. Very fun.💞
A lot of our slang from the convict days was used to confuse the traps (guards) in charge and used a lot of gealic, welsh and Scottish words just to make it harder.
sook is actually short for sooky la la 😂💖
Brings back childhood memories of adults saying "Stop being such a sooky la la"
Also I think most australians would appreciate ur candidness lol😝😂
In regards to "rooting", I can only guess that it's somehow related to the olden times phrase, "I want to plow your field" which was a farming metaphor for sex.
When I first started doing business in Australia, I panicked. I didn't understand A LOT of what they were saying. I ran to a book store, at home, and found a book entitled "Stroin" (Australian spoken by Australians). Some of my favorites: POM (Prisoner of His Majesty) = a Brit. WINGHER = a complainer. MIDDIE & SCHOONER = beer glasses
The word "root" for having sex has been around for decades. In the US that word is used a lot to describe how someone is cheering/backing/favoring a particular sporting team. That is why when we hear someone comment at a football match that the all girls cheerleaders are "rooting for the team" we are all in stitches. Crude? to you, but somehow it entered our dictionary of aussie slang.
The shortening of words is something we have been good at since the country was colonized & probably originated from cockney slang. The classic phrase is "jeet yair dew" which translates to "Did you eat? Yair, did you" Say it fast & all will be revealed.
I took a sickie, had avo toast for my brekkie, had a sanga at the chippies in the arvo and headed to the bottle-o to buy some exy cab sav.
If you were buying or selling stuff online, people use a site called Gumtree and they're called gummies (by the site).
Also, Maccas, not Mickey D's or McD for MacDonalds
Aussies have a specific set of skills acquired over a century of living down under
Chuck a youie, chuck a sickie, dunny, chrissy, a sippy, a wocka, 😂😂
My last name is Brekke, pronounced brekky. It was fun hearing you say my name.
Aussie here...you guys are hilarious ..love it....cheers!
Also with relation to expense, instead of saying its a bit exy if somthing is expensive, you can also say "its a bit rich"
There are 2 books availible from the ABC shop called lost for words and words fail me, which goes through the historical use of aussie slang from the early years till today...the books are written in the form of a story with explanations at the end of every chapter for the slang n their origin nmeanings....
I also love doing Aussie accents. I’ve been asked if I’m an Aussie and I have to explain that I’m not and why I do it
The "nahyeh" and "yehnah" reminds me of when I was in high school (50 years ago). I had a friend called Nick, and whenever we were together, friends to come to me and say "Nick ... er ... Nat!", or to him "Nat .. er ... Nick!" Finally I would say "Look! He's 'Natnick' and I'm 'Nicknat!'"
In the US, "ripper" is a hot dog, which is fried in a deep fryer until it rips open. These are common in New Jersey.
I also love Australia and have been doing research to go there, hopefully within the next three or four years.
I hear a difference between Brit and Aussie ..... Australian accents are the best 🇦🇺🤗💖
Judy Reyes lol! It’s all good 🤗💕💥
There's a difference?
Liam Harrison are you pulling my leg!? 😃💕 there’s totally a difference..... I’d rather party with an Aussie..... there’s an implied good time in the way they say things 😍🥳🤩💕💥💥💥
No they are so similar as an American I cant tell the difference in the accents and that includes New Zealanders too.
@@Liamshavingfun I watch a lot of Australian tv on Netflix..... there's a cool way they say the word "no" for example, it doesn't sound like a 2 letter word when they say it 🤗 can't explain it, can't say it either... no matter how hard I try 🤔😕😄
Fair Dinkum can be used in many ways from expressing exasperation at some fools antics in front of you as you shake your head, much like saying "you've got to be kidding, seriously" Fair Dinkum can also be used to express that a certain thing that you are talking about is straight up & serious, no joke.
Aussie slang and Brit slang are always entertaining...love Aussies and Brits...great fun video..laughed the whole time...now to sign up for Squarespace...❤ 2 U both!...and prayers to Australia during this crazy time..🙏
Still haven't came to NAPLES,FLORIDA- USA, OR SOUTHERN INDIANA..... waiting for the email! Love you both!!
"Rooting" for sex makes sense when you consider that the term for sex for certain mammals (like deer, sheep, camels, and others) is "to rut" and those animals that rut are said to be rutting.
I am so excited to see a video on Australia coz I m Australian!!
Gidday Joel and Lia, I am from Australia, and I had to laugh because some of those slang words aren't really used much anymore, but again, it all depends on who you are speaking to. I can think of a couple more for you to use e.g. beauty, but say it "bewty" means fantastic, or "you little bottler" means you did great. Sandwich is "sanga", bottle shop for alcohol is called the "the bottlo". I laughed when you said root, haven't heard that for ages, but it is true, another saying for sex is "getting your end in" lmao :-) For tomato sauce, I don't know how many other people call it, but I call it "blood", BBQ is a "barbie".
As you both love Australia, I love England, even though I haven't been there. I absolutely LOOOOOOOOOOOVE the cockney accent and I think it's very sexy. I would love to live in England, and I'm thinking of moving there, but don't really know where to begin in researching it, but I have plenty of time, so I'll just take my time and look up stuff on it.
Love your channel. Later aligator xx
Definitely enjoyed it !
Love all the happy fun in every video. love the laughs and giggles.
Australians are well admired and loved in the US. The cultural differences are spice and the pleasures of the internet , now that we can talk around the world instantly.
RICH&2 carnivorous kitties LA.CALIF USA.
The 2 phrases my ex girlfriend hated were “I’m going down to the local for a schooner and a countery, then have a bash on the pokies” and “Got to shake hands with the unemployed”
The Yellow Tail wine advert was quite timely with this video. 🤣
Joel laughs like Klaus from 1987 The Chipmunk Adventure movie
People in Australia who would say "chockie bickey" - you would call them 'chavs'.
Adding “Y” sounds like baby talk...as if you’re talking to a little kid...lol. If a man talked to me like that I might stop and see if he was being undermining or not. 🥴
Jennifer Napalo I was thinking the same thing lol. I only talk like that when I’m talking to a baby or a cute animal.
Jasmine Bykerk exactly!!😂😂 he’s in for a rude awakening if he thinks that’ll work 😅
My family has the 'Thingy' habit.
Y sound, but often ie. Or just i.
Ckocky bikki
Prezzie
Mozzie
Cozzie
Cutesy
Chrissy
Who the hell says Facey?
Ughhhh. Its only certain words, you can't just shorten anything and put a y sound.
'Fair dinkum' when I read it I imagine it's company cars😂😂😂😂
I loved your painted nails. They were beautiful!
@Joel
Next time you go to that restaurant, you could answer with "Yes... ish" for added confusion. :)
Kiwi and Aussie accents are pretty similar ... but on some words Kiwis to the next level.
Ripper, translates to bloody brilliant which we also say over here
You guys are so silly, I love it when you crack each other up, it makes me laugh :)
Ripper in Australia also means Bonza and Bewdy (from beauty).
Omgosh I loved this video. Very funny. I didn't realise us Aussies had so many slang words uniquely Australian. I know we have some the same as Britain. You make me proud to be an Aussie 😊
Here in the states I've heard Yeah-NO meaning no. Much like Sorry, Not Sorry lol