# Ozzy dialect question

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 4, 2002, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ozzy-dialect-question/122260 "2002-08-04T04:05:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2002, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ozzy-dialect-question/122260/81 "2002-08-10T20:26:38Z")

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That commercial was my source, **Wendell Wagner** , and tv _never_ lies. Shrimp is also American slang for a small person, and Barbie is, of course, a very popular (and quite small, except for the boobs) doll. Great fodder for dirty minds.  
In the last ten years or so most people I know have taken to calling large shrimp “prawns”, and small prawns “shrimp”. I don’t know. Gimme a big plate of crayfish while I think about it.  
“Suck head and pinch tail”.  
Peace,  
mangeorge

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**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2002, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ozzy-dialect-question/122260/82 "2002-08-10T21:14:30Z")

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> \*Originally posted by manhattan \*  
> \*\*Does there remain a point to this thread? \*\*

Well, from the OP;

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> I’m also interested in other Australianisms that we’re not too familiar with in the U.S.

The replies are sticking _pretty_ close to the OP. And my ignorance is being fought.  
But the decision is, of course, your’s.  
Peace,  
mangeorge

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