At 07:07 PM 12/9/02 +1100, you wrote:
>please don't refer to Australia as Oz.
John,
I have belonged to the www Model Engineering List for about ten years
which is populated by a number of Australians, all of whom regularly and
invariably refer to their location as Oz, I think more as an expedient
acronym as anything else, and none of them have ever mentioned that it
might be thought of as derisive. This isn't to say that you shouldn't,
that's for you to decide, but I was surprised to hear someone say that it
was. I thought of it as a rather lighthearted reference.
Regards,
Harry Wade
Nashville, Tn
