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Australia Is Obsessed With Nicknames

We all enjoy slapping nicknames onto people and activities. We call basketball “hoops” and dancing “cutting rug.” Marijuana itself has dozens of nicknames, including the awesome “wacky tobaccy.”Australians, however, do it best and do it the most.Oxford Dictionaries says that Australia gave us the single most important word of the 21st century: “selfie.” Australians call ambulances “ambos” and mobile phones “mobes.” Mosquitos are “mozzies,” and poverty is “povo.”