Bonzer. Dinkum. Troppo. We love our distinctive words and phrases.
We revel in the confusion they cause outsiders. We celebrate the stories behind them. We even make up a few furphies about them.
What many Australians might not know, however, is that for nearly 40 years a dedicated team at the Australian National University (ANU) has been hard at work digging up these past stories — real and furphy — and keeping a close eye on the new ones.
