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Re:A sweary, ranty YouTuber who's become an isolation cookin... by tomhoward on Friday May 01, 2020 @02:59AM (#23039695)
A close friend of my S.O. is a German woman, who moved here about 15-20 years ago to marry an Aussie bloke who speaks with a very strong "Strine" accent (which is not so common here in Melbourne).

It's one of our greatest delights to hear her use, in her still-strong German accent, the Australian slang words/phrases she's picked up from him. Like the time we dropped into their house, and she greeted us, ushered us in, and said (if you can imagine this being said in a thick German accent) "Mark will be with us soon, he is just on ze blower".

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=On%20the%20b...

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Re:A sweary, ranty YouTuber who's become an isolation cookin... by rmason on Friday May 01, 2020 @04:03AM (#23040027)
Actually my grandfather had friends who spoke of the telephone as 'the blower' and I'm from Michigan. These would be guys mostly born in the 1880-1900 range.
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Re:A sweary, ranty YouTuber who's become an isolation cookin... by tomhoward on Friday May 01, 2020 @04:33AM (#23040179)
Yeah interesting. As I searched for references I found it originates from Britain.

This Quora thread has some interesting info: https://www.quora.com/Why-do-some-people-call-their-telephon...

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