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A close friend of my S.O. is a German woman, who moved here about 15-20 years ago to marry an Aussie bloke who speaks with a very strong "Strine" accent (which
by tomhoward 7y ago
A close friend of my S.O. is a German woman, who moved here about 15-20 years ago to marry an Aussie bloke who speaks with a very strong "Strine" accent (which is not so common here in Melbourne).
It's one of our greatest delights to hear her use, in her still-strong German accent, the Australian slang words/phrases she's picked up from him. Like the time we dropped into their house, and she greeted us, ushered us in, and said (if you can imagine this being said in a thick German accent) "Mark will be with us soon, he is just on ze blower".
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=On%20the%20blower https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=On%20the%20b...
- rmason 7y agoActually my grandfather had friends who spoke of the telephone as 'the blower' and I'm from Michigan. These would be guys mostly born in the 1880-1900 range.
- tomhoward 7y agoYeah interesting. As I searched for references I found it originates from Britain. This Quora thread has some interesting info: https://www.quora.com/Why-do-some-people-call-their-telephone-the-blower https://www.quora.com/Why-do-some-people-call-their-telephon...