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Issue Details: First known date: 2016... 2016 Dinky-di Aussies : How Slanguage Helped Form a New National Identity
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'They called it slanguage. A unique language developed by soldiers on the front during World War One. It was a creative fusion of Australian slang, blue words and bits of French and other foreign phrases ...'

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