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RE: AUS - Wet Amaroo

To: vintage-race@Autox.Team.Net
Subject: RE: AUS - Wet Amaroo
From: jeh@world.std.com (jim hayes)
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 21:06:08 -0500
> 
> No, it is fairly common in Australia for people to use, usually in =
> speech, a diminutive/shortened form of a word(s), so it is perfectly =
> acceptable.  Thus, flag marshals (flaggies), fire marshals (firies), =
> Alan Jones (Jonesie), Bob Hawke (Hawkie), etc.
> 
Ah yes, back in the 60s we used the same idea in the States, where we called 
our decorative pit crew "pit poopsies"....

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