[tri-wings] Re: Plethora (was Hurricane Ivan)

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From: "Karen" <karens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Don't send her to Aus!!! I will have to find a picture of an Aussie
"Yobbo"
> and send it to you :-))
> Now is that a new word for your dictionary this week?
>


I know, I know - as she sits waving her hand frantically waiting for the
teacher to call her name........................................
(I like this word - boy did spell check have a ball with this blurb!!!)



Copied from http://www.australianbeers.com/culture/yobbo.htm

  Yobbo
Report author Paul Williams said his study of alcohol-related crime showed
Australian males were still "yobbos", particularly in their early twenties.

Sunday Telegraph, Drink Driving Stigma Fading, 9 April 2000

The alternative seems to be a country of nose-picking, road-raging,
pie-dribbling yobbos. Pull your stubbies up, Bruce.

Excuse me, but etiquette stops us turning into yobbos, Sydney Morning
Herald, 10 April 2002

A yobbo is simply yob (boy spelt backwards) with the standard Australian -o
extension added to it.  Yob is an english word, but the Australian meaning
is slightly different to the English one.   In English English, yob is about
equivalent to hoon. Yobs break into houses, they mug you. That sort of
thing. In Australia, yobs, or yobbos, predominately are beer swilling,
potbellied Australians who swear while watching sport on the telly with
their mates. The typical norm sort of character.

It isn't even necessarily a bad thing - the term can be used affectionately.

NOTE: You can learn a lot more about the language and culture of yobbos in
The Aussie English CD.



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