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Hem Bairg

A small leather holdall used by Strine women for carrying all manner of possesions and personal effects with them everywhere they go ("Haya seemie Hem Bairg pet? Air! ya leftit honour flaw roite wear oycud treepova eet! Woy carnya peekie dup, ya shtubid bet!")

Airpsly Fair-billis

Exceptionally good or pleasing ("Aw heddan Airpsly Fair-billis toime lar snoite")

I thought it might be worth introducing this to London. I use Strine a little, but I keep being misunderstood by people - so time to educate the masses*

Australian spoken english using slang terms with no spaces in between words.

Someone who can actually speak fluent strine is very rare, generally only found in surf clubs or bowls clubs

e.g.

itsfuckenorrightaymate

avagoodweegend

garngetfucked

* The 6 masses that actually read this bloody thing

Longer, more inebriated and MUCH more expensive than happy hour

Drunkorexia n. A potent cocktail of liquor and starvation increasingly popular among women who offset the calories in alcohol by eating little or nothing before hitting the town.

A drunkorexic can enjoy three glasses of pinot grigio for every skipped Snickers bar.

Thanks to the folks at Wired for this.

micrology

[fr. Gk mikrolog�a : minute discussion, frivolity]
/mahy KROL uh jee/
1) attention to petty details or distinctions;
nitpicking

"Micrology registers the occurence of thought as the unthought that remains to be thought in the decline of grand philosophical thought." - David Rodowick, Reading the Figural, or Philosophy After the New Media

not to be confused with a science dealing with the handling and preparation of microscopic objects for study

After a bit of a break, Wørd of the week returns, with a word that could have been crafted just for me:

Schizothemia

from. Gk schizo-, from schizein, to split + thema, theme]

A digression by means of a long reminiscence;
repeated interruptions of a conversation by the speaker
introducing other topics.

(not to be confused with schizothymia)

bur·geon v

1. To put forth new buds, leaves, or greenery; sprout.
2. To begin to grow or blossom.
3.  To grow and flourish.