Let's Celebrate!

[spacesailor]

D. Trump.

Laugh out loud !.

spacesailor

[willedoo]

"We shouldn't make fun of the Yanks"

 

 

We'd be hard pushed for entertainment if we couldn't take the p*ss out of them. There's no shortage of material to work with there.

[old man emu]

Yeah, but it's no fun when they haven't got the brains to realise we are taking the p|ss.

[willedoo]

Yeah, but it's no fun when they haven't got the brains to realise we are taking the p|ss.

 

Good point, ome. But as Australians, we're duty bound to do it regardless.

[Jerry_Atrick]

We shouldn't make fun of the Yanks or the British for different terms for common things. It's just a matter of dialect.

 

The British eat iced lollies. The Yank eat icy poles. We eat ice blocks.

The British live in bed-sits. The Yanks live in apartments. We live in flats.

<snip>

 

<pedantic on>

The British call flats, flats.. I think Melbournians, if not the rest of Austrlians call flats in skycraper buildings (condominiums in US terminology), apartments. The Brits still call them flats. Bedsits are a specific type of flat where there is no separation between the bedroom, living room and often kitchen - or where the bedroom doubles as the living room because they are tiny and were originally probably going to be the communcal janotorial room but the developers eyed up an opportunity (they are too small to even contemplate the term dining room).

<pedantic off>

[willedoo]

No apartments in Queensland; they're called units here.

[kgwilson]

And circlips are called snap rings in the US. I don't know why. Maybe theirs break easily. To me a split pin and a circlip (circular clip) describes exactly what they are.

[Jerry_Atrick]

No apartments in Queensland; they're called units here.

Not on the Gold Coast

[willedoo]

Not on the Gold Coast

 

Must be all the foreigners living down there, corrupting our good language.

[Jerry_Atrick]

I could never get over how in QLD, a "port"= a suitcase.. I never did find the QLD word for port (the drink, or the shipping port)..

[red750]

Port in that instance being an abbreviation of portmanteau. A word which, itself, has two meanings. Look it up on Google.

[old man emu]

Swimmers, togs or Speedos?

[red750]

Budgie smugglers.

[onetrack]

They're Trunks in my neck of the woods.

[Jerry_Atrick]

Port is too shortened - next they will be referring to mushrooms (as in Portabello) or something...

[pmccarthy]

Swimmers, togs or Speedos?

Bathers in SA

[red750]

A couple of examples of the other meaning of portmanteau, combining two words to create a third:

Breakfast + lunch = Brunch

Video + log = Vlog

Web + log = Blog

[old man emu]

Budgie smugglers.

 

That is a universal term, like Ugg Boots. It's not a dialectic term like "port", "togs" etc.

 

What's the South Australian word for the processed meat others call "devon?

[red750]

Fritz.

 

Which state refers to potato cakes as scallops, which are really a seafood.

[octave]

What's the South Australian word for the processed meat others call "devon?

 

fritz

[old man emu]

Which state refers to potato cakes as scallops, which are really a seafood.

 

NSW.

 

And Queenslanders call it Peanut Paste, not Peanut Butter.

[kgwilson]

Devon is a county in England. The processed stuff you mostly buy sliced is also Luncheon sausage or Belgium sausage.

[pmccarthy]

Gyros and kebabs

[facthunter]

What are Hairpins made of.? I know some people like bikes but having them as children is a giant step. Motorbikes maybe? Nev

[willedoo]

NSW.

 

And Queenslanders call it Peanut Paste, not Peanut Butter.

And in Queensland we have potato scallops as well. And swimming togs.

 

One thing to note is that Queensland has had massive migration from the southern states, and terminology has been imported with them. So it mixes the terminology up a bit. I don't know the numbers, but I'd guess only about half of Queenslanders these days come from original Queensland born & bred stock.