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. 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. Isles Aux Morts, Nfld.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'. Gaspé, Que.: ‘Jacques Cartier, right this way, I’ll put your coat up on the bed’ (Looking For a Place to Happen) Lac Memphremagog, Que.: ‘Writing a song about Lake Memphremagog’ (Problem Bears) Montreal: The song is inspired by Hugh MacLennan’s The Watch that Ends the Night: ‘Sleepwalk, so fast asleep, in a motel that has the lay of home’ (Courage (For Hugh MacLennan)) Hazeldean, a community in Kanata: ‘I drove down your road, to Hazeldean where I tasted your funeral home’s sandwiches and coffee’ (Greasy Jungle) Skeleton Park is McBurney Park in Kingston, Ont.: ‘In Skeleton Park one fine summer evening . . . The ghosts of the Rideau Canal start to sing’ (Skeleton Park) Springside Park, Napanee, Not: ‘You can see your breath in Springside Park’ (An Inch an Hour)īath, Ont.: ‘Twelve men broke loose in ’73, from Millhaven Maximum Security’ (38 Years Old) ![]() Niagara Falls: ‘Do you like it inside a barrel and plunging over the falls?’ (Daredevil)Ĭanoe Lake, Ont., where Tom Thomson drowned: ‘Tom Thomson came paddling past, I’m pretty sure it was him’ (Three Pistols)Īlgonquin Park, Ont.: ‘I think it was Algonquin Park, it was so cold and winter dark’ (The Bear)Īlgonquin Park, Ont.: ‘Want to be your stars of Algonquin’ (Lake Fever)īobcaygeon, Ont.: ‘It was in Bobcaygeon, I saw the constellations reveal themselves, one star at a time’ (Bobcaygeon) Highway 401: ‘So we don’t f–k with the 401’ (Titanic Terrarium) ![]() Regent Theatre, Toronto: ‘Well, there’s a rocking little spot next to the Regent Theatre’ (All Canadian Surf Club) Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto: ‘The last goal he ever scored, won the Leafs the cup’ (50 Mission Cap) Toronto: ‘Win Toronto, yelled the Queen of the Furrows’ (Queen of the Furrows) Speed River, Guelph, Ont.: ‘Speed River take me away’ (Speed River)Įtobicoke, Ont.: ‘To see Etobicoke coyotes’ (Ultra Mundane) And Moonbeam, Ont.: ‘There’s Mistaken Point, Newfoundland, there’s Moonbeam, Ontari-ari-o, there are places I’ve never been, and always wanted to go’ (Fly)Ĩ0 km north of Cochrane, Ont.: ‘Bill Barilko disappeared that summer, he was on a fishing trip’ (50 Mission Cap) Sarnia, Ont.: ‘Sarnia, you been on my mind’ (In Sarnia) Marie’ (Born in the Water)Īttawapiskat, Ont.: ‘Attawapiskat, city by the bay’ (Goodnight Attawapiskat) Marie, Ont.: ‘Smart as trees in Sault Ste. The 100th meridian: ‘Where the great plains begin, at the hundredth meridian’ (At the Hundredth Meridian)Ĭhurchill, Man.: ‘Thompson girl walking from Churchill, across the icy world with polar bears it’s mostly uphill’ (Thompson Girl) ![]() Saskatoon: ‘Sundown in the Paris of the Prairies’ (Wheat Kings) Golden, B.C.: ‘The Golden Rim Motor Inn, soft water and colour TV’ (The Luxury)Ĭalgary: ‘I always thought I’d go to Calgary’ (Take Forever)įort McMurray, Alta.: ‘Go be a man of the boom . . . When Athabasca depends?’ (The Depression Suite)
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