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I stand corrected.In NSW we called it Devon.
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I stand corrected.In NSW we called it Devon.
Fritz is rugby league country. Devon southern Australia. Polony in WA.
It's one of the language markers you can use to separate Australian English into dialects.
What is the Barassi Line?
Did you know there is a globally unique line that divides Australia's sporting fans? Deakin's Hunter Fujak explores the Barassi Line.this.deakin.edu.au
...A particular eccentricity of the Australian sporting landscape is that, culturally, our football codes remain strongly tied to their geographic origins.
Australian rules originates from Melbourne, with the southwestern states as heartlands. The rugby codes made their Australian sporting debut in Sydney, with northeastern states as heartlands.
This phenomenon was dubbed “the Barassi Line” in 1978, describing a cultural dividing line based on football preference proposed to run from Eden, NSW, through Canberra and up to Arnhem Land. The term was first used by historian Ian Turner in his Ron Barassi Memorial Lecture that year...
That would play a part.But I am not everyone from NSW, and my parents were from Vic.
Straz (short for strassburg) and devon were two separate things. We had both.
We also had presswurst in the house quite a bit:
I’m the same: Devon. Barrassi line isn’t that all-purpose.But I am not everyone from NSW, and my parents were from Vic.
Little boys is what we call them
'Realistic' is what I like to refer to them as...
lets welcome rolf harris to the chatLittle boys is what we call them
Yeah we also call them cocktail frankslets welcome rolf harris to the chat
so thats SA yeh?
i am from WA and always had them as cocktail franks, or franks
in qld where i have been they do cheerios apparently - confused * oiut of me when my step kids said they wanted cheerios on weekend for lunch and i was like, what? cereal?
'We" being people from Mannum??Little boys is what we call them
We as me and my wife, also I haven’t always lived in mannum'We" being people from Mannum??
In Tassie this is known as "Belgium", and sometimes "Devon"
yeah i worked in a woolies deli in wa and remember a customer asking if we had "cheerios" i pointed him to the cereal aislewhen i moved to qld and worked the deli there i eventually realised they call the cocktail franks that.same as polony/devonlets welcome rolf harris to the chat
so thats SA yeh?
i am from WA and always had them as cocktail franks, or franks
in qld where i have been they do cheerios apparently - confused * oiut of me when my step kids said they wanted cheerios on weekend for lunch and i was like, what? cereal?