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Thread #63857 Message #1054612
Posted By: Bob Bolton
16-Nov-03 - 06:37 AM
Thread Name: Folklore: Etymology - Oz & Aussie
Subject: RE: Folklore: Etymology - Oz & Aussie
G'day Giok and Hrithgar,
"Ocker" is a sort of side-line to this. It's a longstanding (local ...?) contraction of the name 'Oscar', but it became established as much what Hrothgar's quote says from the character of that name, played by Ron Frazer in the mid-1960s satyrical TV revue The Mavis Bramston Show.