{"product_id":"9781786751744-pocket-australian-english","title":"Pocket Australian English","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat’s why you need this book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAustralia and the UK are two nations divided by a single language. When the Queen’s English is chopped and sliced, its meanings cut and pasted: nothing is cut and dried.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut no wuckas, it doesn’t 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 you’ll be exchanging g’days with S’traya’s  Territorians, apple islanders and banana benders.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou’ll know that an offie is a ‘bottle-o’, a laptop is a ‘lappy’ and a tea break is a ‘smoke-o’. You’ll learn to distinguish ‘pissing down’ from a ‘piss-up’, and ‘noah’s arks’ from ‘shark biscuits’. You’ll 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Affirm Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42935299637384,"sku":"9781786751744","price":16.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0371\/3443\/4440\/files\/pocket-australian-english-9781786751744-344802.jpg?v=1726778813","url":"https:\/\/littlelostbookshop.com.au\/products\/9781786751744-pocket-australian-english","provider":"The Little Lost Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}