Spring in Movember

Decoding Oz with American glasses on...

Oh the fun I have had!

A chicken kabob is pronounced kababb

 The French word fillet is pronounced with the t sound on the end.

Business Casual is Smart Casual

a coffee French Press is a plunger and a toilet plunger is a plunger

so, be careful which plunger you ask for in the morning...

A Canteloupe is a Rock Melon

Flip Flops are Thongs, and Thongs are G-strings

only one photo is necessary :)

911 is 000

A cookie is a biscuit

A scone is a scone

but biscuits they don’t have

If you need to go to the hospital, you say, “I need to go to hospital” there is no ‘The’.

In the states, we live on the rewards of credit cards! I never knew how intense that was until I came here. You don't hear or see advertisements. People use their debit cards. Living only on what you earn, USA, is possible! (but I did earn a free ticket here through good ole' AMEX)

Paper size is not 8 ½ x 11, but 8 ½ x 12 and it’s called A4. And that’s not Bingo.


 

A purse is a Bag
And a wallet is a purse.
To put a check mark on a piece of paper is to ‘tick it’

A Plumeria flower is a Frangipani

 

A Hyndai is pronounced He-undi

Tires are Tyres; color is colour

 

gas is petrol

 

and, the most frustrating part of getting petrol is you have to stand and hold the lever on the pump! Oh my goodness. You are literally stuck there and you can’t move for 2 full minutes. And ‘paying at the pump’ is non-existent. Yep, you guessed it. You have to go in and pay.

(Note: cute photo is taken in the outback. not in Sydney :))

 

Rental cars are called hire cars and hire cars are only white, but all white cars are not hire cars.

 

The word 'school' ,where I come from, is all forms of education; but school here is only elementary. Yep, want to put a bewildered face on a child, have a conversation with them and tell them you have to go to school now.

A Mustache is a Mo… and it has it’s own month. Yep, all the men grow a mo in Movember to raise money for prostate cancer awareness! (and optional for girls.)

Ketchup is creatively called Tomato Sauce or just Sauce for short.

Fries are chips and chips are chips.

Burger King is Hungry Jacks, but McDonalds is McDonalds

Sleep is used to measure time. Going away for 3 days? We will see you in 3 sleeps!

If you really want to throw off an Aussie, just say that you can see them ‘every other week’ and they will say, ‘every other to what?’, and you will say, ‘to every other week’. It’s called fortnightly.

They had a prime minister one day and a different one the next with no election.

No one has guns here and everyone thinks we all own one.

‘Busting’ means you need to go pee.

Rubbish bin is the trash bin

Skinny jeans are not just for skaters. All boys under 30 wear them.

All eggs are brown and the chickens have fro's

A swimming suit is called a swim costume or a cozzie for short.

Our fiscal year ends and begins in January, their fiscal year ends and begins in July, but both months are in the winter.

Our schools start in August, theirs in February, both are the last months of Summer.

 

A parking lot is a car park

The park full? kerb side parking may be available

Want to make huge men crashing into each other, chasing a ball cute? Add an ‘ie’ at the end.

Footie

Hungry this morning? Lets get some breakie, Heathie?