The Way People Talk Up My Way
People talk weird up my way. Not drastically different from other places round us - y'know, anyone who's got a good grasp of English could understand us, dun matter where they're from. But there's still plenty weird things about how I talk, and how people round me growin up talk. I'm writin this intro as close as possible to the broader part of my way of talkin, just to give yaz an idea bout the extent o these differences. I doan orways talk this broad, but I grew up talkin this broad wi me friends, so it's in me brain, it's a permanent part o who I am. Anyways, nuff o that, movin on to what I'm actually sposta be talkin about, which is specific components of our way o talkin that I find intresting, and which yous'll find intresting too, opefully.
Yous
"Give it to him"
People in my part of the world who were born roughly between 1950 and 1980 have an interesting exclamation. It's a term that appears all over the inland Midwest, from Meekatharra and the Pilbara down to Paynes Find, mostly among agricultural communities. I'm going to notate it as gibudim, but there isn't actually one set way to say it: depending on how you're feeling, you could pronounce it any way from [ˈgibʊwɾɪm] to [ˈgiβuˌɾɚəm] to [ˈgɪvurːm̩], and all in-between. According to my dad, it comes from an imitation of an Aboriginal accent - a version of the Aboriginal accent that is now remembered only by these older generations - saying "gib it ter 'im" (give it to him). The exclamation is used vaguely in correlation with the idea of giving chase. For example, when telling a story, one might say: "Jack knows he's gonna get it, so he takes off, and Bert fuckin gibudim!" and accompany it with a gesture indicating someone taking off and starting running. Or, an observer could be watching a sheepdog having a standoff with a goanna. The goanna takes off and the dog gives chase, and the observer might cheer, "gibudim!"
A note on the phonetic transcription I gave above, showing the geminated alveolar trill: I asked my dad about this pronunciation, and he indicated that the gemination was an intrinsic part of the word. After that, when I jokingly asked how I should spell that, he suggested "GIBUDDDIM", specifying three D's to represent the trill.