… trying from memory, or from imaginative reconstruction, to sound like a “Tru-Blu Ozzie” is a bad move. As in the case of Clive James writing on AD Hope in The Times Literary Supplement:
(Used as a noun, the word “rissole†denotes a kind of proto-hamburger, but used as a verb – as in “Strewth, we’ve rissoled the Holden†– the same word means that the machinery has ceased to work.)
It would work really well in comedy, but as literary criticism ’tis a little lacking in verisimilitude.
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