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Come in Spinner: A History of Two-Up and Its Language - Softcover

Moore, Bruce

 
9781922669421: Come in Spinner: A History of Two-Up and Its Language
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1922669423 ISBN 13: 9781922669421
Publisher: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2022

Synopsis

Two-up, a famous Australian soldiers’ gambling game, has given Australian English many unique words and phrases. The game is significant in Australia’s cultural history. This book is the essential guide to the language and history of the ‘national game’. Bruce Moore explains Two-up’s role in the development of the ANZAC legend and provides new evidence that aspects of the game and its terminology have their origins in Ireland. He shows us how the Australian concept of the ‘fair go’ had its origins in Two-up, and how working-class tenacity saved the game from the efforts of authorities and wowsers to wipe it out. The well-known phrase ‘come in spinne’r is just one of the more than 140 Australian words and phrases that have their origin in the game of Two-up. This is the reader’s chance to learn about ‘alley loafers’, ‘baldie’s, ‘bastards on bikes’, ‘boxer’s, ‘butterflies’, ‘cockatoos’, ‘floaters’, ‘grouter bettors’, ‘headies’, ‘kips’, ‘nit-keepers’, ‘nobs’, ‘ringmasters’, and ‘two-uppians’.

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About the Author

Bruce Moore, lexicographer and author, is the chief editor of the Australian National Dictionary (OUP 2016) and the author of several books on Australian English.

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Publisher
Australian Scholarly Publishing
Publication date
2022
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1922669423
ISBN 13 
9781922669421
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
176