Terms For People
Australians use a variety of terms to refer to people. These terms may indicate such things as the person's ethnicity, the place where the person resides, the social status of the person, the person's behaviour, etc. Many of these words occur in other English dialects, especially New Zealand English, whilst others are unique to Australian English. Some of these words were once heard to be derogatory, but many now have been adopted. e.g. Bluey - a person with red hair
Australians also use shortened terms for a variety of tradesmen, even shortening the word itself to "tradie". Electricians are known as "sparkies", carpenters are "chippies" and brick layers are "brickies", for example.
Read more about this topic: Australian English Vocabulary
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