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The fair dinkum, ridgy didge, dinky die, true blue, dyed-in-the-wool, let’s talk strine SAO quiz.

Monday, September 29, 2008 by Stefan

Australia’s official language is English, but can you really understand the “lingo”? Take a quiz, to find out if you could really carry a conversation down under. Good luck, mate!


Click here for the quiz.


Post your results back here, and see how you stack up!


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4 Comments for this post

thumbs says:
September 29, 2008 at 5:55

you gotta change that background on the quiz. i feel like my eyes are sunburnt..all i see is red.

reagan says:
September 30, 2008 at 5:18

I nearly went blind trying to do that quiz!

Correct answers: 10
Incorrect answers: 10
Comment: You’re a nong as far as the Strine goes.
…but there may be hope for you yet. After all, you nearly got half of them right… but a miss is as good as a mile in a quiz, innit?

I suck at quiz’s!

A. says:
October 30, 2008 at 7:36

16 correct, helped by many of those phrases being used in the UK as well. Whether exports or imports I don’t know.

Littlejib says:
November 3, 2008 at 9:59

Damn 17 out of 20, and i live here

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