English /English aussie

**Prema** · 08-06-2010, 02:10 AM

Language barrier.... actually there is a small one, very small though.

I think that people who live in Adelaide have very slight aussie accents, sometimes I can't tell. But I'm told that our accents stick out like a sore thumb....
Sometimes things are called different names.

Zucchini - Courgettes
capsicum - salad peppers (red), I asked the lady at pizza hut what it was she looked at me and I knew she was saying to herself are you serious?
Doona/manchester - duvets
OG road - this one threw me, I was calling it og road as in one word, but why don't they put dots in between the letters? O.G. Road, then you will know not to sound the whole word only each letter.
I know there are lots more can't think of them right now.

Do any of you agree that Adelaide is geared to the US, the trucks, houses and roads? I said this to an aussie and she got quite defensive, said that Adelaide was more like a little Britain, I asked her if she had ever been to the UK, she said no!!! what gives.

**Diane** · 08-06-2010, 03:26 AM

The funniest thing I ever heard was about an English lady, shopping in Target when over the loud speaker came an announcement "Would someone from Manchester please come to the enquiry desk?". Being a helpful type (and from near to Manchester) she went over to see what they wanted - only to find they needed someone to answer a query about bedding!

You'll have to start pronouncing a few words differently now you're here too Prema - parsta (pasta), and rowt (route) and if you ask someone which team they're supporting, you ask who they're barracking for - never who they're rooting for!

I think a lot of things here are very American too - the billboards, and the TV ads for a start.:)

**lynsteve** · 08-06-2010, 03:37 AM

Originally Posted by Diane

The funniest thing I ever heard was about an English lady, shopping in Target when over the loud speaker came an announcement "Would someone from Manchester please come to the enquiry desk?". Being a helpful type (and from near to Manchester) she went over to see what they wanted - only to find they needed someone to answer a query about bedding!

You'll have to start pronouncing a few words differently now you're here too Prema - parsta (pasta), and rowt (route) and if you ask someone which team they're supporting, you ask who they're barracking for - never who they're rooting for!

I think a lot of things here are very American too - the billboards, and the TV ads for a start.:)

whats rooting di, tell me please................;)

**newlife** · 08-06-2010, 07:50 AM

Originally Posted by lynsteve

whats rooting di, tell me please................;)

:Randy-git: does this answer your question

**ian mc** · 08-06-2010, 08:09 AM

I said that to my wife in 1995 when we came here this is like America only 20 years behind.

**suzer** · 08-06-2010, 08:10 AM

I thought that too about OG Road - I still occasionally call it Og Road;)

As for Oz/Adelaide being more similar to the US, I've always thought it had equal elements of both the US and UK, having lived in both places. It's new but it still clings to it's English roots.

**suzer** · 08-06-2010, 08:11 AM

Originally Posted by Diane

The funniest thing I ever heard was about an English lady, shopping in Target when over the loud speaker came an announcement "Would someone from Manchester please come to the enquiry desk?". Being a helpful type (and from near to Manchester) she went over to see what they wanted - only to find they needed someone to answer a query about bedding!