TIL in Australia the name of the band "AC/DC" is pronounced "Acca Dacca"
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AC/DC - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AC/DC#Formation_and_name_(1973%E2%80%931974)
"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)?
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.
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.
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.
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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That's correct. But I'm still confused. I'm from a "maccas" country (they actually use the term themselves).
Do other countries call it "maccies"?
Yeah, no. In Canada it's maybe referred to as McDee's, Micky Dee's, McDonald's, but nothing similar to Macca's
As an Australian living in Canada, yes it's Macca's in Australia, but a Canadian friend also told me they have McDicks.
In Canadian English "yeah, no", "yeah, no, yeah", "no, yeah", and "yeah, no, for sure" are just sayings (here's a random reference I found). I just meant "yeah, like you suggest, no, other countries might not use the term"
Nah that’s kiwis.
They say stuff like “where’s the car” whereas we say it more like “where’s the car”.
Nah, we don’t use hard r’s at the end of our words like in American English. For instance, our way of pronouncing ‘car’ is more like ‘cah’ or just ‘ca’. The way you’ve written it is basically Pirate English.
In my part of Germany we like to say “Mäckes” which I suppose is maccas
Around here people call it McDoof. Not sure if that’s a local thing or not.
I’ve heard McDuff, Maccies, McDs and just plain McDonalds.
“Meki” in Hungary
Mäci in Austria
Well, damn, now I know what I'm getting for lunch.
I've heard MickyDee's rarely, normally its just McDonalds, but otherwise only Macca's from Australians.
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Do you know the origin? Maccas, mackies, mickyDs, McFat, you can make assumptions about how these came about. Is there an origin story for Donken?
There's no real known origin as far as I'm aware. There's nothing called a Donk either, but the -en specifies that it's the Donk we're talking about and not "a Donk" (en Donk). Honestly it's probably just something like "McDonalds>McDonken>Donken". It's shorter and gives it a personality.
Ugh, multinational conglomerates pretending to be hip to the local lingo is the fucking worst 🤦
I mean, to be fair, we probably started calling it Macca's about 15mins after the first store opened.
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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.
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'.
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.
Nickname isn't the name though. We use "AC/DC" and "ACCA Dacca" pretty much just regularly as each other down here.
Everyone arguing dumb things here because of a dumb title. Pronounce = how it phonetically sounds, Nickname = alternative or shortened name. They are not synonyms :)
No, you have been misinformed. AC/DC is an acronym for alternating current/direct current, the two types of electricity. It's fitting because they play electric guitars, and are a heavy metal band. Get it? It was quite witty in 1973.
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TIL AC/DC isn't Scottish or English (although, in my defense, apparently almost all the members were).
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Hollywood without their secret Australians/Kiwi actors would be in shambles. Well, worse shambles.
First of all, if you are going to accuse me of being fake, at least get my name right, that's esteemed Academy Award nominated character actress Margot Robbie to you.
Second of all, of course I'm drunk.
Next you're going to tell me that you put butter and sprinkles on toast and call it "fairy bread".
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Unless you're over excited about winning a competition, in which case it's pronounced "ADDC... ADAC... ACCD... AADAC"
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