So many things are shorten by adding a ‘O’ after the first syllable…

Registration: Rego
Service Station: Servo
Carburettor: Carbo

Etc etc etc

So why are traffic cones “witches hats” instead of conos???

Who knows? They are a strange breed.

Why don't they just say 'traffic cones' it just as easy?

I did not know that witches wore traffic cones as head gear.

Are traffic cones called witches hats That's the name we use for crab nets

A witches hat, when I was younger, used to be an ice cream with a lolly sticking out the top of it.

Cos they look like witches hats, just orange.

Yep, The Bloke always refers to them as witches hats. Not as good as my purple one though

My wife is Aussie and she is always winging about the number of "trucks, road works and witches hats" on our roads in the UK. Thought she was mad at first, but now just resigned to the fact! Guess she is right though!

Heard a lovely one the other day......

Having "shortened" change (as in coins) to "sharpnel", we were delighted to hear some young girl exclaim....

"look at all the shrappo in my purse"!

I always thought a witches hat was the nether regions of a loose (literally) woman

I feel a Alan Partridge moment coming on!

PS Playing eye spy on the M4 in UK with an Aussie who says something beginning with W H is a nitemare if you dont know what a witches hat is!

Talk about mixing metaphors. I was thinking of JCB starter buttons at one point.

i just asked my wife if she would show me her witches hat and she looked at me like i was demented

i should add i'm drunk and tried to use the telephone as a mouse and wondered why it wouldnt work.

Ok, but what does the phrase "Witch's T*t" mean?