May 19, 2013 20:05
The word 'girt', and the fact that Australians are the only people who all use the word regularly, and some of us even the sort of know what it means... just makes me happy every time I hear our anthem.
(Which is usually when earnest sportspeople are mangling and mumbling it because the only line they know is the the one about us being girt...)
100 things,
words and language,
down under,
makes life better