By Fiona Macrae No more 'tinnies': The use of Australian slang, which was aided by Dame Edna Everage (pictured), is in decline in Britain, according to linguistic experts Hello possums! If you are enjoying a barbie with a few tinnies while wearing your sunnies, you are hopelessly out of date. Australian slang has fallen out of fashion, experts fear. They say that a new generation of Aussies is coining fewer words of their own and borrowing more from abroad. The decline of the backpacker also means that less of the lingo is making its way around the world. The warning comes from Tony Thorne, a linguist at Kings College London and author of the Dictionary of Contemporary Slang.
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Phrases like tinnies, barbies or sunnies are out of date, say linguistic experts
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Three new Australian phrases are in the Dictionary of Contemporary Slang
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Warning comes from the book's author Tony Thorne, from Kings College
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Selfie, however, is believed to have originated from Down Under
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