Our language is evolving over time and we are adopting innovations via all sorts of conduits. A recent addition to internet life is the use of 'articles' to promote small start-up online businesses. This is the domain of the 'Stay-at-Home-Mom' who can earn a few dollars online between changing 'daipers' A litle research will show the dearth of Australian content in the internet home business world, yet thousands are adopting the internet to help their businesses.

I have recently inaugurated a service www.ozarticles.com to address this need.

This was a grouse analysis, thanks, Roly. The one area of discussion that wasn't canvassed, though, was the far greater reach of new technology in influencing the dominance of American English (eg, the Internet, Microsoft products). Would be interested in your views on this, and how/whether this affects the other points made in the article?

Roly, you are a classic and not a bad poor bugger to boot. There have been (and still are) many attempts to capture the culture of Australia and few succeed. In my view you Roly come closest to getting it right. Even though we import words and phrases and export our gems of wisdom, in my opinion the Australian language is doing quite well thank you.
I nominate Roly for one of our "living treasures" awards.

Tom

Neat article, Roly.

One quibble, if I may.

"Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, oi, oi, oi!

This does not sound quite like the British"

But that's exactly where it came from - the Cornish have been shouting "Oggie Oggie" since the 19th century. And in the 1970s, it was the catchphrase of Welsh comedian Max Boyce, complete with "oi oi oi"

Hello Roly - Frank here and just lately come to this site. I would suggest "play for the team at the weekend". She was in the team because she was picked, and she's playing in her first game for it at the weekend, on Saturday arvo.