The first step of the long walk home. 2:20 flight. Then into Sydney for a night of chips with chicken salt, and repacking. Sleep. It’s all gone so fast.
How about a few differences between the U.S. and Australia?
We’ll start with a couple phrases. You’ll see some borrowed from British English, and others from, well, who knows. Near as I can tell, the Australian to American English dictionary should begin with these:
- Lemonade -> Sprite or 7-Up
- Hire -> Rent
- Nappy -> Diaper
- Pram -> Stroller
- Buzzer -> Garage Door Opener
- Trolly -> Cart
- Bottelo -> Liquor Store
- Servo -> Service Station
- Lolly -> Candy (excluding hard candies)
Light switches differ as well, in two respects. You click them down to turn them on, and they’re more toggles than switches as we’d define them:
Power sockets are differently shaped, no big surprise, but in addition, they all have a switch above them to turn the socket on and off. When I said we just have ours hot all the time I got looks of bewilderment. I’m still not entirely clear why.
Now on to that repacking.
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