Journal of Australian Studies, September 1st, 1999
My friends were named Jim, Yannackers (a derivative of Yiannis), Kon, Bill, Luigi and Spiro. We were all wogs, but that was hardly relevant in a school where most students came from ethnic backgrounds ... I rarely see my school friends nowadays, although an occasional contact will produce a return to the adolescent argot which was such an organising principle of my relation to language and literature. I was talking to Yannackers over the phone about two weeks ago ... We fell easily into wogspeak.(1) copsmate don't talk to me about copsmate mate i tell ya they freak me out mate believe me wha...
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