and joined a unit which fostered rugby football.
This interstate and code rivalry is often found in evidence for the term, including the early evidence from the 1940s.ġ947 West Australian (Perth) 22 April: In 1941 he enlisted in the A.I.F. The term is used largely by people from States in which Rugby League and not Aussie Rules is the major football code.
The term derives from the fact that the play in this game is characterised by frequent exchanges of long and high kicks. It would put the acid on putative challengers and catch them out if they are not ready.Ī jocular (and frequently derisive) name for Australian Rules Football (or Aussie Rules as it is popularly called). When the stewards 'put the acid on' the riders it was found that only one exhibit in a very big field carried a boy who was not over ten years old.Ģ015 Australian (Sydney) 6 February: One option would be to skip the spill motion and go directly to a call for candidates for the leadership. The Australian idiom emerged in the early 20th century and is still heard today.ġ903 Sydney Stock and Station Journal 9 October: In the class for ponies under 13 hands there was a condition that the riders should be under ten years of age. Acid test is also used figuratively to refer to a severe or conclusive test. This idiom is derived from acid test which is a test for gold or other precious metal, usually using nitric acid. 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.
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. I may therefore protest-delete my profile in the near future, so if you use this list for reference, you might want to save a back-up.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'. You will have noticed that more and more content on this site is either artificial or paid for, which makes me increasingly hesitant to contribute or modify content. And I can't reply to messages here since I'm off Facebook since November 2016. The order is by year of original release, so if something seems to be missing, it may be at a different spot.
"Köçek" (1975) is a transgender love story in Istanbul (!) with a big Turkish star of the time, Müjde Ar.
I couldn't add the following titles even though they're on IMDb: "Nights in black Leather" (1973) is narcissist Peter Berlin's most famous blue movie and very telling as to how ancient certain fetishes are.
I'm gradually including more titles so feel free to come back every once in a while. I'm only listing films with a recognizable LGBT angle, not exploitative ones or those where it's a matter of interpretation (for instance, Hitchcock's "Rope" can only be interpreted as gay-themed if one knows the real-life case by which it was inspired - and in "Spartacus", you got to catch on to what oysters are supposed to mean). It's got a long way to go so bear with me. Since quite a few people seem to use this list for reference, I'm revamping and upgrading it into two halves.