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Americani_ation
True Blue
100

Loyalty, solidarity and friendship.

What is a MATESHIP?

100

A galah or drongo.

What is a FOOLISH PERSON?

100
The Australian accent rated most negatively.
What is the Broad Australian accent?
100

The reason Americanisation began in Australia.

WWII and/or MASS MEDIA

100
The objects of the majority of Indigenous borrowings.
What are cultural terms, flora, fauna & place names? (note: all nouns)?
200

The idea of taking things easy and enjoying life without getting stressed.

What is a LAIDBACK or RELAXED attitude?

200

A girl/female.

What is a SHEILA?

200
(Depending on your state/region) a pot, middy, schooner or ten.
What is a medium size glass of beer?
200
The spellings causing the most controversy due to Americanization.
What are Z/S, ER/RE & O/OU
200

A complex expression that is made up of single semantic units where the meaning of the whole cannot be deduced from the individual parts.

What is an IDIOM?

300

Celebrating diversity and inclusion. 

What is MULTICULTURALISM?

300

A variety of slang based on phonology not semantics, originally from Britain. 

What is RHYMING SLANG?

300

A make-shift language that begins when speakers of different languages mix for a period of time and need to communicate.

What is pidgin?

300
The year Victoria began to acknowledge American spellings in The Age newspaper (and was later pressured to return to British spellings).
What is 1969?
300
A common last minute addition to a declarative clause, making it a question.
What is interrogative tag?
400

Freedom to vote and run for office, and to express opinions and beliefs.

What are DEMOCRATIC VALUES?

400

A common form of creating nicknames for people or nouns in Australia. 

What is HYPOCORISM or HYPOCORISTIC USE OF SUFFIXES?

400
The variety of Aboriginal English that is recognised across all varieties.
What is Kriol?
400
The subsystem causing the most controversy when it comes to Americanization.
What is lexicon?
400

The accent least likely to be heard in Australia today.

What is the cultivated accent?

500

Negative attitudes towards those in power or highly educated people.

What is ANTI-AUTHORITARIANISM or ANTI-INTELLECTUALISM?

500

Shoot through, Woop woop, Buckley's chance

What is the Aussie slang for... Leave, middle of nowhere, very slim chance?

500
A variety that identifies speakers by their ethnicity and usually their L1 (first language)
What is an ethnolect?
500
The number of languages Australian English has borrowed from.
What is 160?
500
A striking prosodic feature of the AusE commonly occuring at the end of declarative sentences.
What is the High Rising Tune/Terminal? (Australian Questioning Intonation, Uptalk)