Posts by RhondaBracey@mastodon.social
 (DIR) Post #AUtiAxPWRiNxt4HB7A by RhondaBracey@mastodon.social
       2023-04-22T03:29:51Z
       
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       @grammargirl Re: the history of 'dude'. I went to Trove (National Library of Australia's online newspaper archive, effectively to about the mid 1950s) to see what I could find. If you can see it (hopefully not geoblocked), expand the date range on the right sidebar to see the prevalence of the word from the late 1800s in Australian newspapers. I didn't check many but some made interesting reading: https://trove.nla.gov.au/search/category/newspapers?keyword=dude
       
 (DIR) Post #AUxUk7fxePdT8Kg9k8 by RhondaBracey@mastodon.social
       2023-04-23T23:18:09Z
       
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       @grammargirl Western Australian chiming in here: Yes, we buy plants in a 'nursey', sometimes a 'garden centre'. Can also buy them at a 'hardware store', which we call 'Bunnings' :-) (like Home Depot in the US). I've always called it a 'hardware store' (generically) even before the time they didn't sell plants, so I don't think that's particularly American.
       
 (DIR) Post #AXX2JFJmYFxgIKtdo0 by RhondaBracey@mastodon.social
       2023-07-09T22:33:22Z
       
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       @grammargirl Common enough in Australia whether this way or perhaps, more commonly, the opposite (whoa to go). Not sure it's used so much these days by younger people.
       
 (DIR) Post #Abbx3oQ5qA09FOcs1w by RhondaBracey@mastodon.social
       2023-11-08T22:56:30Z
       
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       @grammargirl In Aussie slang, we abbreviate 'chock-a-block' to just 'chockers', as in 'It's chockers, mate', meaning it's full to the brim. We're good at abbreviating all sorts of words!