to be successful in the exertion of such pressure. To exert a pressure that is difficult to resist to exert such pressure on (a person, etc.), to pressure (someone) for a favour etc. Hence 2, noun A particularly sterile piece of academic writing.' The evidence has become less frequent in recent years.ġ993 Age (Melbourne) 24 December: The way such festivals bring together writers, publishers and accas, making them all accountable to the reader - the audience - gives them real value.
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The editor of Meanjin, Jim Davidson, adds a footnote: 'acca (slightly derogatory) 1, noun An academic rather than an intellectual, particularly adept at manipulating trendiologies, usually with full scholarly apparatus. The abbreviation first appears in Meanjin (Melbourne, 1977), where Canberra historian Ken Inglis has an article titled 'Accas and Ockers: Australia's New Dictionaries'. We trust that Edmund Weiner and John Simpson did not take a citation, since the Australian abbreviation of academic is not acco but acca (sometimes spelt acker). I hoped, after I left, they would enter it on one of their little slips and add it to their gigantic compost heap - a candidate for admission to the next edition.
I asked if they were familiar with the Oz usage 'acco', meaning 'academic'. But not all -o words were Australian, said Simpson : eg 'aggro' and 'cheapo'. Australians used the -o suffix a lot, he reflected. Produced by Matchbox Pictures, supported through our Production Investment funding and directed by Tony Ayres, Cut Snake stars Sullivan Stapleton, Alex Russell and Jessica De Gouw.Michael Davie in 'Going from A to Z forever' (an article on the 2nd edition of the Oxford English Dictionary), Age, Saturday Extra, 1 April 1989, writes of his visit to the dictionary section of Oxford University Press:īefore I left, Weiner said he remembered how baffled he had been the first time he heard an Australian talk about the 'arvo'. The outcome of this action will lead to betrayal and murder, with Sparra forced to battle not just Pommie, but his own private demons, to save Paula and himself. When Pommie learns that Sparra intends to marry Paula, he ramps up his campaign to lure Sparra back into crime, planning to incriminate Sparra in the robbery of a nightclub.
She has no idea her fiancé has been in prison with this man. He is the perfect houseguest and he tantaslising drops hints into Sparra’s mysterious history. Pommie is ruthless and charming and soon inveigles his way into Sparra’s house. But when Pommie, a brutal man in his mid-thirties, tracks him down, speaking ominously of “unfinished business” between them, Sparra realises he’ll have to fight to keep the past from ruining his future. He has found honest work and become engaged to a beautiful girl, Paula. It’s 1973 and Sparra Farrell, a fiercely private man in his late twenties has recently gotten out of prison and moved to a new city in an attempt to start a new life and escape his old one. A tense, psychologically driven crime thriller in which one man discovers the biggest obstacle to putting the past behind him is himself, Cut Snake burst onto the big screen in September 2015. But he finds it’s a door that's never closed. Sparra Farrell gets out of prison hoping to put his past behind him.
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