As I start to prepare for my Australian Citizenship test some time in the future, this article is very helpful.
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From Reuters
In Australia you'll want to avoid a stoush, that's a fight but with the 'ou' pronounced as in 'ouch', with a larrikin or troublemaker, where you might suffer a Larry Dooley or a beating, derived in part from the name of a boxer famous a century ago.
And watch out for rorts, that's frauds or con tricks.
Unless of course it's only a furphy -- a rumor. This word is derived from World War One battlefields where rumours traveled with the carts bringing water to the soldiers in the trenches. The carts were made by the Australian company Furphy.
Did Paul Keating invent the term "rort" or did he just speak of it?
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It's not too late to reconsider the Australian citizenship thing. And whilst the words I listed above came directly from a tea-towel sent to me by my mother this Christmas - I feel there's enough there to give you pause for thought.
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Other than that, I am not really doing too much to pursue Australian Citizenship. I am still somewhat sympathetic to the English Cricket Team. I made a joke in the post and James thought that I was almost at the altar. It is an option, but a few years yet I think. I lived in 'merica y'all for over 10 years and didn't turncoat.
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A fraudulent or dishonest act or practice (a tax rort). Also used as a verb (to rort the system). Rort comes from standard English rorty meaning ‘boisterous, jolly’, and, in the late nineteenth century, ‘coarse, of dubious propriety’. The second sense of rorty disappeared, but has been retained in the Australian rort. First recorded 1919.
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