2006-10-28 10:00:51 · 12 answers · asked by Goofy Goofer Goof Goof Goof ! 6 in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
Crocodile Dundee.
2006-10-28 10:02:25 · answer #1 · answered by robtheman 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
It is assumed that G'day arose from the English greeting 'Good Day', which literally means that the speaker wishes the listener to have a good day, or a day of general harmony and enjoyment. Its overuse may have eventually led to the abbreviation of the form to G'day, which is particularly likely considering the laid-back nature and attitude that people of Australian heritage are renowned for.
2006-10-28 10:03:53 · answer #2 · answered by Barkley Hound 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i do no longer think of anybody individual 'invented' it. yet so a approaches as popularising it to the the remainder of the international, Bazza McKenzie could have been the single which first popularised it interior the united kingdom and Paul Hogan interior the U. S.. regardless of if it could have been utilized in rather a lot any Australian television shows shipped to different areas of the international, like Skippy, Alvin pink, Aunty Jack. yet maximum in all probability no longer via Neighbours or Prisoner!
2016-12-16 15:57:35 · answer #3 · answered by keef 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is just a slang term or shortened version of the Old English for "Good Day"...people with different accents will (naturally) pronounce thins differently or informally...an example: Ma'am is short for the French, Madame/Madam. (Also, we Canadians sometimes have been known to say "Good Day, eh"? Just as the Australians say "G'day" Another one that is different is that some friends I've met from Bahamas or Trinidad say "Good Night" rather than "Good Evening", and in other parts of the world they say just "Evening" or "Eve'nin'".)
2006-10-28 10:17:20 · answer #4 · answered by GeorgieGirl 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
G'day is an abbreviation of the English greeting 'Good Day', which literally means that the speaker wishes the listener to have a good day, or a day of general harmony and enjoyment.
2006-10-28 10:02:00 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
G'Day has probably been around in Australia for as long as (or longer than) "Howdy" has been in Texas.
G'Day has been around longer than Crocodile Dundee, as I had heard it long before Dundee movies came out... long before that Hogan guy was even a household name (although, I can't currently recall his first name...).
2006-10-28 10:05:33 · answer #6 · answered by scruffycat 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Probably some convict that arrived in a prison ship from Scottland. It sounds a "wee bit o' Scott".
2006-10-28 12:36:34 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's simply a dialectal difference ... morphological and phonological to be more exact. It's not a question of inventing it - it's just a shortened version of "good day" or "have a good day"
2006-10-28 10:02:33 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
All the technical responses are correct...In Australia you get every few people saying it...in the country it's every single person...
...and people are right, it has to do with the laid back attitude, and is well suited to my country, as is "she'll be right !" ... (-:
2006-10-28 17:02:07 · answer #9 · answered by 67ImpalaSS 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well my guess is the french!! I think the french made it up because "Bon Jour" means Good day and wen the australlians heard about this they started using it
2006-10-28 10:04:58 · answer #10 · answered by I luv 2 dance 1 · 0⤊ 3⤋