PETs ( was Who was in Australia?)

On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Roger Merchberger wrote: The term "Strine" is one I was introduced to years back by an Australian friend who used the term to refer to his nationality and his accent. It's a shortening of "Australian" and sounds best if pronounced with that accent. I was wondering whether there'd been definition drift over there, as there has been between here and England -- yes, I _know_ that "paddock" original means what I'd call a "corral". It's meaning as a place with a fence to keep animals in would easily lead itself to drift over to a place with a fence surrounding abandoned eguipment, what in the US I'd call a junkyard. -- Ward Griffiths "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards." --Claire Wolfe