• MrRazamataz@lemmy.razbot.xyz
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    1 year ago

    “AC/DC” is pronounced one letter at a time, though the band are colloquially known as “Acca Dacca” in Australia.

    Not really, it’s like calling McDonald’s “maccies” (or “maccas” in Australia I think)?

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, it’s a nickname. We all know it’s “A.C.D.C” but we say Acca Dacca cause that’s what Aussies do.

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        It’s kinda more fun to say it that way with a bogan accent too (that’s like redneck or chav depending on where you’re from) ,

        ‘oi daz? Youse know where me accadacca tape is? I’m farkin frothin for some back in black. Also, give us a dart’

        ^not how we talk, just a fun exaggeration.

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          Mate, I worked at Bunnings for seven years and I can tell you for a fact, there are plenty of people out there who actually talk like that. I’d put it on when I was working the trade yard so that tradies/handymen would (ironically) take me more seriously.

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            1 year ago

            Oh, I mean, I know. But I don’t want to misrepresent the whole country. But I too have caught public transport.

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          In this case, they literally had to. The name “maccas” is so ubiquitous in Australia they needed to trademark it and start using it. Otherwise, some genius could have opened a burger joint called “Maccas” and been completely fine.

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          1 year ago

          I think we were the ones who bullied them into it, to be quite honest. I’m not sure I’m even physically capable of pronouncing the entirety of the name ‘McDonald’s’.

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      1 year ago

      Not an apt comparison considering McDonalds for a while signed some restaurants as Maccas, and the McDonalds rewards app in Australia is literally called MyMaccas.

      • ddh@lemmy.sdf.org
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        1 year ago

        Yeah, but those names came after the local usage. But to the point, I’d wager the majority of Aussies who know AC/DC and McDonalds would understand Acca Dacca and Maccas.