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{blue]: it is perfectly OK to regard Victora as the southernmost part of oz too! Max is geographically correct of course but we mainlanders would not take offence at Vic being called southern southern southernmost Isn't there another thread on this? 
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I got:\sluggers
speedo-type bathers: Look at that guy, thinks he's so hot in his sluggers!
Okay, whenever I make it up there, I want to see all you guys model a pair for me! :-)
I'm glad they included an example of use. Otherwise, I'd have thought it referred to people who swim fast. Here, bather is an old-fashioned word for swimmer. I take it the usage here is what we would call swim trunks? stales, you ought to be bi-lingual--help!
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speedo-type bathers:
Hmm, there's plenty of other names for them too... more colloquial than sluggers!  Dicky danglers; Dick stickers; and DP's (DP stands for "Dick Pokers", which is what you see when a guy wears them). I'm sure there are other names too.
I want to see all you guys model a pair for me! :-)
And I'll be busy that day!
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Oh blech!  "sluggers"? ? What nasty connotations this has - and could be construed to be somewhat derogatory to the boys out there! I am astonished to see that this word is attributed to my neck of the woods (West Oz). I've always lived here and have never heard it - well, apart from it being the name of a baseball-themed restaurant down the road. Like Hev says - we have other names for this little item of swimming attire, which are usually just called "speedos", but "sluggers"? No thanks!
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Someone sent me a site about dinosaur-bone digging in Oz, and it was near the very bottom of the continent (SE region), near a town called Inverloch. I know that the town that is just about the southernmost part of NZ is Invercargill. Does inver- have something to do with a southern location? Say--there's a street near me called Inverness--but it's not the southernmost end of town, let alone the continent. Loch and ness make we wonder if it's Scottish. Cargill is a mystery to me.
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My lucky dip was:
white rabbits
you have to say it on the first day of any month which contains the letter R: White rabbits!
It says this is in Victoria, but having lived here for 5 years I've never heard it; we just say "A pinch and a punch for the first day of the month" and all the silly follow-ons. My husband, who grew up in Vic, tells me that people say "White rabbits" when they put out a campfire, to make the smoke go away!
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Alexis ~
Could you expand on the first-day-of-the-month ritual? Is this exchange something one does on the first of every month? Typically with whom? And what is the complete litany, please?
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you have to say it on the first day of any month which contains the letter R: White rabbits!
Similar things in the UK when I grew up, except that in my family we had to say 'Rabbits and Hares' rather than 'White Rabbits'. I think I knew both variations before I lived overseas, but I'd never heard the 'pinch and a punch' until I got to Oz. So maybe that's the one they should put on the word map?
In my understanding too, the words (whichever version you go with) have to be the very first ones you utter that month to be effective. (some kind of goodluck incantation?? - there's more to this than I realised when I started...)
All well and good if you a)remember what day of the month it is first thing in the morning when you wake up or b)don't ever indulge in the kind of latenight activity where midnight passes unheeded and you find you've said something else before you realise!
And this is the first time I've heard of the limitation to months which contain the letter R - I always thought it was all months. The letter R rule was for eating oysters or when to water cacti or something.
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inver is Celtic for river mouth. So Inverness is the town at the mouth of the river Ness.
Which is all well and good, but 'ness' is a standard element meaning headland. (Check in the Norse section on Bingley's link.) So how did it get to be the name of a river? Is this pure coincidence or what?
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