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s | strine |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a proper noun strine is

(australia|new zealand|uk|informal|jocular) broad australian english; broad australian rendered as eye dialect.

s

Translingual

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Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=ยทยทยท , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    strine

    English

    (wikipedia Strine)

    Alternative forms

    * strine

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • (Australia, New Zealand, UK, informal, jocular) Broad Australian English; broad Australian rendered as eye dialect.
  • * 1982 , J. C. Wells, Accents of English'', Volume 3: ''Beyond the British Isles , page 595,
    • Several Strine' forms depend on an assumed equivalence between '''Strine fortis consonants and Cultivated/RP lenis ones, thus ''garbler mince'' (couple of minutes), ''egg jelly (actually). It is doubtful whether this reflects any real phonetic difference.
  • * 1989 July 8, Ariadne'', , page 120,
    • A team at Griffith University in Bribane is working on what the university?s newspaper callls a bionic snorter. Translating into English from Strine , this is a bionic hooter, conk, bugle or nose.
  • * 1992 , Gillian Bottomley, From Another Place: Migration and the Politics of Culture , 2009, page 133,
    • Dell?Oso describes the encounter of an Asian woman with a surly bus driver whose only language is Strine (a form of Australian English, barely intelligible to many of the native-speakers).

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