Aussies commonly refer to Melbourne as Melbs. It is also known by its Indigenous Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung name, Narrm (or Naarm), and is often referred to simply as "the city". The city is also sometimes called the "Queen City of the South".
Nicknames for cities include: Brisvegas (Brisbane), bush capital (Canberra), city of churches (Adelaide), Emerald City (Sydney), Silver City (Broken Hill), and Smellbourne (Melbourne).
'Narrm' comes from Woiwurrung – the language spoken by the traditional owners of Melbourne and its surrounds, the Wurundjeri People. As the name 'Narrm' is being translated from oral language, there are several variations of the spelling. Narrm, Naarm and Nairm are all commonly used and accepted.
Bogan (/ˈboʊɡən/ BOHG-ən) is Australian and New Zealand slang to describe a person whose speech, clothing, behaviour, or attitudes are considered unrefined or unsophisticated.
Examples of these include Murri (Queensland and north-west NSW) Koori (Victoria and NSW), and Nunga (Adelaide and surrounds). Use 'Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander' when referring to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people generally. Using 'First Peoples' and 'First Nations' is also generally acceptable.
Manchester. Looking beyond coffee, weather, and art, part of what makes Melbourne unique is its urbanised, ex-industrial atmosphere- something that it shares with Manchester. Famous for being the world's first industrialised city, Manchester was at the heart of the industrial revolution.
The word Narrm (Nairm, Naarm) can be spelt many ways and is a word used by both the Woiwurrung and Boonwurrung language groups of the Central Kulin Nation. In Woiwurrung language, people use this word to refer to 'the scrubland' of the now Greater Melbourne CBD area.
But the most common word is one so quintessential that it has a habit of slipping into nearly every other phrase without a thought. Yep, it's “mate”. (Of course it's mate.) For every individual “mate”, there's a “How ya goin' mate”, or a “G'day, mate”, or a “She'll be right, mate”.
Ain't is a non-standard feature commonly found in mainstream Australian English and in New Zealand, ain't is a feature of Māori-influenced English. In American English, usage of ain't corresponds to a middle level of education, although its use is widely believed to show a lack of education or social standing.
The terms pommy, pommie, and pom used in Australia, South Africa, and New Zealand usually denote a British person. Newspapers in Australia were using the term by 1912, with it appearing first in Western Australia, and was said to be short for pomegranate, with the terms "jimmy" and "jimmigrant" also in use.
Using terms such as "the Aborigines" or "the Aboriginal people" tends to suggest that Aboriginal people/s are all the same, and thus stereotypes Indigenous Australians. The fact is that Indigenous Australia is multicultural.
White Australian may refer to: European Australians, Australians with European ancestry. Anglo-Celtic Australians, an Australian with ancestry from the British Isles. White people, who are Australians.
