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If you're a square you'll have to get hep to bodgey language, March 1951

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If you're a square you'll have to get hep to bodgey language, March 1951

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Bodgies and widgies have added to the headaches of the English language by inventing a whole tribe of new expressions.

From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[TN18]
(PIX, 10 March 1951, p23)

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