Strine's a term coined in 1964 and subsequently used to describe a joke or made-up "language" purportedly spoken by Australians. The term's a syncope, derived from a phonetic rendition of the pronunciation of the word "Australian" in an exaggerated Broad Australian accent. It was the subject of humorous columns published in the Sydney Morning Herald from the mid 1960s. Alastair Ardoch Morrison, under the Strine pseudonym of Afferbeck Lauder (a syncope for "Alphabetical Order"), wrote a song "Wi… (More on Strine)