I took this photo while holidaying in country New South Wales a few weeks ago. I was making the most of the local Op Shopping (charity shopping), and couldn’t resist taking this picture. It’s written in eye dialect - a way of writing that demonstrates the local accent (hence, ‘eye’, instead of 'ear’). The phrase was coined by G. P. Krapp, who wrote in The English Language in America (p. 228): The impression of popular speech..is often assisted by what may be termed ‘eye dialect’, in which the convention violated is one of the eye, not of the ear. Thus a dialect writer often spells a word like front as frunt, or face as fase, or picture as pictsher, not because he intends to indicate here a genuine difference of pronunciation, but the spelling is merely a friendly nudge to the reader.  [Thanks to the OED for that quote] For those of you unfamiliar with Aussie eye dialect, I’ll refrain from giving a translation until the end of the week. See how much you can understand! [translation now available here]