Learn to speak Australian!

When the British government established a convict settlement in Sydney Cove in 1788 they wouldn’t even have thought about the linguistic consequences. The history of Australian English is not just one of transplantation from the UK to Australia, within the dour confines of the First Fleet, but also of adaptation. As time went by, both the convicts and the free settlers adapted English to their new home, twisting the meanings of existing words and borrowing new ones to suit.