Strine was a term coined in 1964 and subsequently used to describe a joke or made up "language" purportedly spoken by Australians. The term derives from a phonetic rendition of the pronunciation of the word "Australian" in an exaggerated Australian accent. It was the subject of humorous columns published in the Sydney Morning Herald from the mid sixties and later a series of books written by Alastair Ardoch Morrison under the pseudonym of Afferbeck Lauder.

Subsequently the term is sometimes used as a synonym for Australian English, usually pejoratively.

References

• Lauder, Afferbeck (A, A. Morrison) Let Stalk Strine, Sydney, 1965, page 9

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