The word "Aussie" is used to describe someone from Australia, though in the last few years I've seen a massive increase in the use of "Ozzy" written in it's place... My theory is that this is a mistake that found its way into writing due to the way it is pronounced, possibly compounded, subliminally, by the simultaneous rise in popularity of Ozzy Osborne.

Curiously, there has also been an increase in the reference to Australia as "Oz", which is a perfectly appropriate analogy to a mysterious land of wonder far, far down under.

The question is, did the mutation of "Aussie" into "Ozzy" provoke this geographic moniker or was it the other way around?