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Bride's Guide to Australia |
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Tuesday, 10 August 2010 |
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 Do you have a copy of the English Brides' Guide To Australia? If it was published as announced in the newspaper report below, it was intended to help English brides and fiancees understand what Australians were talking about... and the differences between the two cultures. As the daughter of an English warbride I was aware that there were different words... for example my mother always referred to the bootmaker as a cobbler, to a singlet as a vest and she said words like dance, bath and castle very differently to my friends' mothers.
So when there was a question on the warbrides forum about words brides who came to Australia would have found odd or different I put together my own list. Here it is - please add more words, comments, or corrections below if you have experienced anything different.
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 10 August 2010 )
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British War Brides of Chinese Australian Diggers |
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Monday, 30 March 2009 |
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Alastair Kennedy from the Australian
Demographic and Social Research Institute at Canberra's ANU, has
unearthed a handful of unusual war brides from the First World War.
Alastair writes about the brides he has found...
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 01 April 2009 )
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They came for love of an Aussie |
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Monday, 14 April 2008 |
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It is impossible to estimate without official records, but it is probable that almost 50,000 women came to Australia in the twentieth century because they fell in love with an Aussie during a time of war. Carol Fallows, whose own mother arrived in Australia in 1946 on assisted passage as a fiancée of an Australian airman, reveals some of their stories
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 08 April 2009 )
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