The UK and Australia have much in common . . . systems of government, love of cricket, even an alphabet. But how they use the ABCs is very different.
Thats why you need this book.
Australia and the UK are two nations divided by a single language. When the Queens English is chopped and sliced, its meanings cut and pasted: nothing is cut and dried.
But no wuckas, it doesnt have to be hard yakka getting up to speed on Strine. On ya for getting started. Have a captain cook (a look) around this handy guide and soon youll be exchanging gdays with Strayas Territorians, apple islanders and banana benders.
Youll know that an offie is a bottle-o, a laptop is a lappy and a tea break is a smoke-o. Youll learn to distinguish pissing down from a piss-up, and noahs arks from shark biscuits. Youll be able to sit down with a pot or a middie or schooner in a rubbedy (a pub), and get on with the locals like a house on fire, rather than drinking with the flies.
