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He speaks of “university,” not “college,” and expresses his full agreement with something another person says with the ubiquitous Australianism “a hundred percent.”

People who automatically answer a “thank you” with a “no worries”—an Australianism currently running rampant in parts of the globe traditionally less uncivilized than the Antipodes—are to be looked at askance.

TV’s influence can replace Australianism with Australianism though: “ranga” has replaced the previous, ironic term for a redhead: blue/bluey.

According to a national survey, "Macca's" is the second most recognized Australianism, just behind "footy" for Australian rules football.

A blunder made in Great Britain is to be stigmatized as a Briticism, and it is to be avoided by those who take thought of their speech just as though the impropriety were a Scotticism or a Hibernicism, an Americanism or an Australianism.