JDoherty
Sea Gull
Joined: Dec 12, 2006
Posts: 207
Location: South Australia
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 Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2008 9:45 pm Post subject: Australian Regionalisms |
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I saw the British v US vocabulary thread and I thought how about an Australian regionalism thread including different expressions used within different parts of the country.
I have seen this website http://www.abc.net.au/wordmap/ about different words used for different states and even different regions within a state.
I moved to South Australia from NSW and after 9 months of living here, I'm still rather puzzled at the differences:
SA: Pint (425ml glass)
NSW: Schooner
SA: Schooner (285ml glass)
NSW: Middy
SA: Potato fritters
NSW: Potato scallops
SA: Stobie pole (pole that holds up telephone and electrical wires along the street)
NSW: Telegraph poles |
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