The Strine Dilemma

Monica Monty Dickens was the great-granddaughter of Charles Dickens. She couldn't understand a customer's Australian accent at a book signing. A man named Alistair Ardach Morrison, an Australian writer and graphic artist took up her cause. He wrote several books on Strine in which he took on the persona of Afrobec Lauder,. The country adopted the term Strine as the official description of its accent.