Dear hev: to tease of troy, I posted that not all Aussie shes were sheilas. I hoped your might comment on that. When I was in WWII, the word sheila was a teensy bit disparaging, alleging they were more welcoming to GIs than their parents' approved of. There was a story about a GI who broke his engagement to a US girl to marry sheila. His ex-girlfriend demanded to know what the Australian girls had that she didn't. He replied, "not a thing, but they've got it here."