Re: Word usage in English dialects // was Slang, curses and vulgarities

Gary Shannon wrote:

> --- Tristan McLeay <conlang@...>
> wrote:
>
>>On 2 Feb 2005, at 6.26 pm, Adrian Morgan (aka
>>Flesh-eating Dragon)
>>wrote:
>>
>>>A few people say "chook" for all purposes,
>>
>>including references to
>>
>>>food. My cousin, for one.
>
>
> That's what I love about this group. I'm always
> hearing odd and obscure words I've never heard before.
>  First it was that champion mushroom thingie and now
> it's "chook".  Where has that word been hiding all my
> 60 years?  I've never heard it before.
Oh, the rest of the English-speaking world outside of North America's
heard it before: on blasted awful Aussie soaps like Neighbors and
Home and Away. Grrr!

K.

P.S. I like Australia, just not the soaps. And they're everywhere here!