Where did it come from; what does it mean?
2007-07-14 19:41:50 · 6 answers · asked by lefty 1 in Travel ➔ Australia ➔ Other - Australia
In the 1960s, expatriate Australians in London, including Richard Neville and Barry Humphries, started a satirical magazine called "Oz". One of the popular features was a comic strip, The Adventures of Barry McKenzie. The magazine was taken to court over the Schoolkids issue in which the articles were all written by schoolchildren. If I remember correctly, the editors were charged with publishing pornography and sedition. They were defended by John Mortimer, the creator of Rumpole of the Bailey.
The name of the magazine stuck as a casual name for Australia and has been used for forty years now. David Williamson wrote a play about Sydney which he called "The Emerald City" which plays on the Oz idea.
2007-07-15 14:03:50 · answer #1 · answered by tentofield 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Oz Means Australia
2017-01-19 15:32:49 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The pronunciation of Australia is "oz-stray-lee-ya", right?
Peops in Oz are Ozzies. Don't matter if you're from Tazzie or Brizzie, Auzzies like abbreviated lingo more than mozzies.
2007-07-14 22:54:50 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
its only an abb. of Australia.we are Australians=Aussies,pronounced ozzies not ossies like the Americans call us,then we shortened it to Oz,I think it came in when we started to use text messages & the internet,but we've been called Aussies since the 1st world war at least
2007-07-14 19:53:42 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
0zz is 0zz!
0zzies not 0ssies like yanks like to say!
Where does it matter where it came from, we are just 0zzies!
2007-07-15 00:02:21 · answer #5 · answered by iamaustralian 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
OZ.........fairy country of OZ........thats it....so its from latin...
2007-07-14 19:44:21 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋