If in Australia, Manchester and More is a reliable outlet for bedlinen. Can I use British pounds in Australia? What colour are Australian bank notes? Is food shopping in Australia expensive? Craft shopping at Glebe Markets in Sydney.
Under planned new citizenship tests designed by the government to bind a nation of immigrants to common values, would-be Australians will have to demonstrate they know the meaning of mateship, having a go and dinkum.
If one word can perhaps symbolise the development of the Australian vocabulary, it could be chunder. Legend has it that the word hails from the time of the British ships that transported convicts to the new colony of Australia. It was a month trip on stormy seas -- a prescription for sea sickness. The convicts were housed in bunk-like beds, where they generally ended up when feeling ill.
As with most Australian slang, the original phrase got shortened over time, and watch out under became chunder -- or so the story goes. Anyone know the origin of this term?
I have never heard it used in England and I had until recently assumed that it was Australianism developed through seeing imported textiles manufactured in Manchester in days gone by. A few weeks ago, however, I came across a reference to a company in England set up in "for making Manchester stuffs of thread and cotton".
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