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Thread #99022 Message #1969359
Posted By: rich-joy
16-Feb-07 - 12:34 AM
Thread Name: BS: ozspeak: Sydney or the Bush
Subject: RE: BS: ozspeak: Sydney or the Bush
Growing up in West Aussie in the 50s, I feel that I've "always known" that expression (Sydney or the Bush) ... so maybe it's more common OUTside of Sydney, than within??!! (I kinda have a memory of it being used by famous, old, Oz poets/authors though ... Lawson perhaps??!!)
"Out in the sticks" however, was regarded as somewhat closer than "beyond the black stump"!!