Penguin Books Australia

Do you sign on the dotted lion?
Is your tea nature Orpheus rocker?
Who is Charlie Charm Puck in 'Waltzing Matilda'?

There was never any book about Australian speech like Strine or about posh British speech like Fraffly Well Spoken . This edition includes all four Afferbeck Lauder books, with a new foreword by John Clarke.

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It was Professor Afferbeck Lauder who made the groundbreaking discovery that Australians speak Strine—not English, as had long been thought. He revealed his findings in a little book called Let Stalk Strine , an instant classic and—as John Clarke writes in his Ford—a publishing phenomenon.