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balderdash to Memes@lemmy.ml • 2 years ago

Australian hits different

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Australian hits different

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balderdash to Memes@lemmy.ml • 2 years ago
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  • balderdashOP
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    31•2 years ago

    Bonus meme 1

    • @arudesalad@sh.itjust.works
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      We call them swimming cossies? I’ve never heard that in my life

      • ma11en
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        15•2 years ago

        We used it during the late 70s and 80s, I don’t recall hearing it recently.

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        • balderdashOP
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          Yeah, its seems like etymologically, “bathing costume” got shorted to “bathers” for some people and “cossies” for others. But that’s just what the internet tells me, I’m not British

    • @CordanWraith@aussie.zone
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      Never heard the term ‘cossie’ in Australia, ‘togs’ and ‘boardies’ are common here though.

    • @SuperApples@lemmy.world
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      You forgot budgie smugglers.

    • Deceptichum
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      Eh that doesn’t check out as we say boardies in Aus and I’ve never heard anyone say cosies, togs also sounds pretty dated?

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      • sil
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        It was definitely togs in Qld when I was growing up. Might be the old potato cake/scallop debate all over again.

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