Afferbeck Lauder

Afferbeck Lauder

Afferbeck Lauder was the pseudonym used by Alastair Ardoch Morrison (born Melbourne 21 September 1911 - died 15 March 1998), an Australian graphic artist and author who in the 1960s documented Strine in a series of books beginning with "Let Stalk Strine" (Ure Smith, Sydney, Australia, 1965). Morrison illustrated the books and also used the pseudonym Al Terego.

"Let Stalk Strine" was followed by "Nose Tone Unturned" (1967), "Fraffly Well Spoken" (1968), and "Fraffly Suite" (1969). The first two presented Australian written phonetically to appear as another language, the next two lampooned the clipped, almost strangled variety of upper-class English speech in the same way. The titles, and the author pseudonym, are all examples in themselves (Afferbeck Lauder = alphabetical order). Some further examples are:

*Strine
**"Spewffle climber treely" - "It's a beautiful climate, really"
**"Emma chisit" - "How much is it ?"
**"Egg nishner" - "air-conditioner"
* Fraffly
**"Egg wetter gree" - "I quite agree"
**"Gray chooma" - "Great humour"

The books themselves contained no clues as to the identity of the author.

In the early 1960s Morrison was appointed chairman of the Currency Note Design Group, an advisory committee which assisted with the design of new banknotes which were issued when Australia adopted decimal currency on 14 February 1966. He was the brother of the journalist and playwright Guy Morrison.

References

* [http://www.austlit.edu.au Aust Lit]
* [http://www4.tpg.com.au/users/bev2000/strine.htm Strine]


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