Australia/UK different words & phrases
Dec 7th 2012, 10:34 pm
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Australia/UK different words & phrases
Over the years I've forgotten about Father Christmas and have become accustomed to Santa...
I tell kids to get a clean washer and forget it was once a flannel...
We take them to the UK shop to buy lollies... when in fact they're sweets...
What other words/phrases got lost in your move?
I tell kids to get a clean washer and forget it was once a flannel...
We take them to the UK shop to buy lollies... when in fact they're sweets...
What other words/phrases got lost in your move?
Dec 7th 2012, 10:36 pm
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Lorry
Dec 7th 2012, 10:42 pm
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I think I mainly still speak UK English but my daughter speaks Australian English and we converse quite amicably. It's like many dual-language families that happens - I have a chinese friend who talks to her kids quite often in Chinese and they reply in English! I might say to my daughter to go and get a flannel and she'll come back and say "but there are no washers in the cupboard" etc.... I'm not being stubborn and trying to retain my english ways, it's just ingrained at the moment, and that's after 6 years, maybe in another 6 it will be different.
Dec 7th 2012, 10:49 pm
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I think I mainly still speak UK English but my daughter speaks Australian English and we converse quite amicably. It's like many dual-language families that happens - I have a chinese friend who talks to her kids quite often in Chinese and they reply in English! I might say to my daughter to go and get a flannel and she'll come back and say "but there are no washers in the cupboard" etc.... I'm not being stubborn and trying to retain my english ways, it's just ingrained at the moment, and that's after 6 years, maybe in another 6 it will be different.
Last time I went to the UK I asked for a particular "yoh-gurt" and got a blank look until I said "yog-hurt" ... have to also remember vitamin (instead of vye-tamin) and privacy (instead of pry-vacy).
Dec 7th 2012, 10:50 pm
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I no longer have a root around to look for Nything
Dec 7th 2012, 11:07 pm
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...And my days of having a fag are behind me.
Dec 8th 2012, 6:20 am
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Dec 8th 2012, 7:01 am
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Yep, I am surprised how much American influence there is here in language pronunciation.
Dec 8th 2012, 9:51 am
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Sook, bogan and hoon.
Roughly wuss or wimp, chav and ???
Roughly wuss or wimp, chav and ???
Dec 8th 2012, 10:08 am
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Re: Australia/UK different words & phrases
Over the years I've forgotten about Father Christmas and have become accustomed to Santa...
I tell kids to get a clean washer and forget it was once a flannel...
We take them to the UK shop to buy lollies... when in fact they're sweets...
What other words/phrases got lost in your move?
I tell kids to get a clean washer and forget it was once a flannel...
We take them to the UK shop to buy lollies... when in fact they're sweets...
What other words/phrases got lost in your move?
I remember flying Qantas a few years ago and asking the hostess if she had any boiled sweets as I was suffering with my ears. She looked at me and said "do you mean a dessert?".
Eventually she said "ah, you mean lollies"
Dec 8th 2012, 11:24 am
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Dec 8th 2012, 11:28 am
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Bag of crisps anyone? (Not chips.)
