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I love that aussie chick. Pure Australian humour right there. "Comforter how weird? It's a doona 🤣" you can never trust an Aussie guys we're always joking.
weird
Definitely no “biscuits and gravy” in Australia! We do eat scones, usually with whipped cream and jam or just with butter.
Yess I made scones the other day and they are the best hot with butter it in them!!
Our scones are different to their biscuits as they use cornmeal to make biscuits and gravy style biscuits - we don’t have an equivalent
Scones with clotted cream and jam is fantastic
@@Dr_KAP I guess our closest equivalent would be dumplings.
@@dawnrazornephilim not sure what dumplings you mean but American biscuits are not like any dumpling I know of. They’re more like an English muffin 😉
Speedo was originally an Australian brand then bought out by a US company I think
In Australia we have toilets on there own that is a a small room on its own in the house [ water closet ]as well as toilets in the bathrooms , that is why we have no worries about saying I'm going to the toilet
The difference is , Freeways are free of intersections , Highways can still have traffic light intersections
I had originally thought it was called a 'freeway' opposite to the 'tollways'.
Up until the 70's virtually no houses built in Australia had the toilet in the bathroom. The bathroom was just a bath, shower and a hand wash basin. The toilet was always a separate little room usually placed at the back corner of the house near the back door or laundry.
So from a language point it never made sense if you're at someone's house asking "Where's the bathroom?" Because you'll walk into a room with no toilet.
But all new homes built the last 40 years have the toilet in the bathroom or placed right next to it in its own little room.
Never understood why you would want to poop where you keep things you brush your teeth with. I always go for separate toilet and bathroom. Do a swab test an hour after flushing and most other people would too.
@@godamid4889 Convenience. Nobody wants to run outside to the outhouse at 1 am just for a poop.
You’ll find most new houses built in Australia now have a seperate toilet & bathroom. Only houses built on a budget for renting usually have the toilet in the bathroom.
@@Mattb81 Houses Even modest new homes now have a bedroom ensuite. I built one 15 years ago with one, and it's nothing flash.
@@stuarthancock571 Yes ensuite to the main bedroom is normal these days. Would be strange not to have it.
You don't even have to get out of your car in Australia, we have drive through bottle-o's
for me (as an Australian) apartment would be if they are part of a much larger building. if its a building with only a few 'apartments' I would call it a flat and if it a small free standing house (1 or 2 bedrooms) on a property with other of the same i would call it a unit.
As an Australian, I 100% agree. 👍🏼
It's mostly to do with when they were built and the physical appearance. Flats are generally deemed lower class dwellings and often lower rise buildings. They appear more sterile with many having only basic brick exteriors; most flats were built during the latter half of the 20th century. On the other hand, apartments are more of a 21st century thing and deemed more middle to higher class. Apartments can go sky-high (upwards of 300 metres) unlike flats; however, apartments can also be lower to mid rise buildings but are much more ornate in appearance with quite a few housing street level shopping.
'Bathroom', 'toilet', and 'loo' are all varyingly used in Australia depending on both where you are from and how old you are, but there are more. 'Dunny' is one I use, but I've also heard 'bog', 'wc' (short for water closet), and 'crapper'/'shitter'.
Also "restroom" can be used at public areas.
You left out 'shit box', 'thunder box', 'outhouse' and my fav, the 'throne room'. All are falling out of use, since only old houses will have a separate toilet to the house. Though there has to be an honourable mention to a phrase that use to be used for going to the loo, 'gotta go and point Percy at the porcelain'.
She left out quilt for the Australian name for comforter. Servo for gas station. We don't have a toilet in bathrooms in most houses unless it's the ensuite which is what we have as a part of the bedroom normally for the master bedroom, some places have bed 2 ens, bed 3 ens and guest bedroom with ens and the bathroom is normally just the shower and a bath with a vanity but the toilet is separate in most cases.
"Biscuits and gravy".... said no-one ever in Australia! Gravy goes with meat, or with chips (hot chips). Pretty much everyone in Australia knows what you mean when you say fries, and that term is often used here for what you get at Macca's, etc. "Truck" is the generic term for anything like that vehicle, but technically in Australia the one in the photo is a "semi-trailer" or "semi". Then you have your "truck & dog", your "B-double", your "tipper", and so on if you want to get more descriptive. A "bathroom" in Australia must have either a bath or a shower. If it only has a toilet and sink then it's just a "toilet" or the "dunny" or the "loo" or the "crapper". In houses in Australia, a toilet will often be located by itself in a small room separate from the shower/bath area.
In America the word "biscuit" refers to a more bread like type of food.
When I first got to the US, I was having breakfast at some place and was asked if I wanted a biscuit. I was wondering why anyone would want a biscuit with eggs, sausages and toast.
I wondered why they had biscuits at KFC lol
@@TattooedAussieChick Yummo! "Could I get some gravy for my Tim Tams, please?"
@@TattooedAussieChick Just thought of this. Tim Tam Gravy Slam!
@@distant_sounds 😂😂😂😂 omg I snorted orange juice out my nose lol
What you call a thong is called a G-string or “G-banger” in Australia
Toilet originally means to wash, dress and fix your appearance. So in otherwords it means bathroom. Also most colognes are called eau du toilette.
As for the Australian answer, it is traditional (and preferable) to have the actual toilet in its own separate room...this way the bathroom is still free for someone else who needs to bathe or shower...also the poo droplets in the air from doing your business can't settle on your toothbrush.
Spot on Steven, the generic term is "toiletries". I am aware that many Americans find the word "toilet" somewhat offensive. Can't see why really.
Growing up we would call it the dunny
Gum boots are named after the material they are made from. Rubber trees that exude a gum.
In Australia Ficus sp. do the gum thing. Growing we had a Ficus elastica climbing over the back fence...you can bounce the fruit was like a tennis ball.
No no no
Skinny = French Fries
Average or thick = Chips/Hot chips
Spot on James.
I call the Macca's ones "fries" and the thicker cuts just "chips". For the biscuits one, choc-chip cookies are always "cookies" and they're even labelled as such at Woolies and Coles.
True but I think this is a generational thing. Traditionally they were all chips until the popularisation of McDonalds and American culture generally
@@Dr_KAP I've gone to Maccas and asked for "chips" once lololol
In Australia capsicum is usually the large non hot ones, all hot ones are basically called chillie's...or a chilli but without the pepper after...example would be scotch bonnet chilli or carolina reaper chilli or birds eye chilli
Aussie here. I think in Australia the name of the vegetable came with the immigrants that intoduced them ie zucchini (cougettes-French) with Italian immigrants; capsicum with Indian Malay and Singaporean immigrants and visitors (according to Google); and eggplant (aubergine-French) was a British word ascribed when the vegetable was first seen during the British occupation of India. Looked just like a white egg hanging from a plant. However apparently that particular plants is no longer around and the Brits now use aubergine instead. But eggplant still remains in use in Australia Canada and USA. Thats what Google said anyway.
I've never understood how Americans can be like "oo but what do you call the underwear then if not a thong??" They're g-strings, what do you use the word g-string for if not the underwear?? Also leather thonging/thongs are thin strips of leather off-cuts, which I guess were made into slip-on shoes back in the day, and therefore were called thongs.
I’m with you - thonging is the leather strapping used to tie on sandals but I guess it is also used on clothing so maybe both can be correct 🤣
Thongs on ya feet were around decades before a g-string up ya crack existed.
That’s funny 🤣🤣 True! but funny 🤣🤣
@@JudeAussie I only speak the truth.
I saw on other videos that even in America the thongs on your feet are sometimes still labelled as thongs when you buy them & older people also use that name. So I don't know why they are always so shocked when they hear us call them that, at some stage they also called them thongs.
Very narrow take on the huge variety of accents and terminology in all three countries. The UK has nearly 40 different dialects that in some cases sound like separate languages and which use vastly different terms. As an Aussie I use many of the terms that were supposedly representative of the UK or the USA and don't use some of the terms suggested by the Aussie girl.
In Australia we do have bathrooms without toilets in them
I would have worded it as we can have separate rooms for the toilet
of the 10 houses I have lived in, only 1 had the toilet in the bathroom and that place also had a separate toilet in a small room off the laundry.
A common way to ask about the toilet (atleast in my friends/family circle) would be 'can i just borrow your toilet for a minute'
Very convenient!
@@myopinion69420 really ? Never heard that one.. to borrow means you’ll take something and give it back. I would say could I use your toilet
28:10 the arse crack one is a G-string, though we'll know what you mean if you use a singular form. The word thong originally was for a narrow strip or cord of leather used to secure something, so the footware was correctly called thong sandals due to the way they stick to your feet. The narrow strip of fabric then also got it's name for having a similar appearance (though slightly different usage)
In South Australia we call a comforter a quilt not doona
OK a scone is generally sweet. Gravy would be put on a Yorkshire Pudding. A rigid heavy vehicle = truck. Rigid heavy vehicle with a trailer dog or pig trailer Combination truck trailer = semi. So what would the Poms or Yanks call an Australian road train? Ok in the land of Oz a toilet can be separate to the bathroom. So a service station (servo) sells Petrol, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and Diesel.
I've heard people (in Australia, who actually drive trucks for a living) call various vehicles a Double B, a semi or semi-trailer, depending on what is hitched up to the truck. There's probably other names used, but again, depends on what the machines are. I think the (long) road trains are also called long haulers. But could be wrong about that.
fun fact most Australian houses
have the toilet in a separate room to the shower and bath
Yes also the Yanks don’t say ensuite they say master bathroom or some weird shit
We dont do "biscuits and gravy ". Dont start me on that white stuff called gravy lol. Your biscuits are like a dead scone . Sorry. 😂
you haven't eating one from the right place. They are not all equal...
It's Freeway versus Toll way...In the UK its motorway....We used to call petrol stations *service stations* (servo) because it used to be a 1 stop shop for your vehicle. Mechanic, tyre repair, window washer(wiper replacements), petrol and additives. (oil,brake fluid, coolant) Bathers are bathers or 1 piece....mens are boardies or budgie smugglers. Speedo was the brand. I think biscuit for you would be a flat bread for us. Though I've never had biscuits and gravy, its hot chips and gravy.
In NSW we seem to use various variations of "freeway". Near me, we have the Princes Motorway, Cahill Expressway and the Southern Freeway.
Sounds like you're from Victoria ;)
We do call toilets a shitter.
Also the term "highway man" came from Britain, so somebody over there says it.
the last one that the Pommy sheila didnt say would be "motorway"
Who installs a toilet in front of the vanity sink?
Edit: We call it a bathroom only if it has a bathtub or shower inside, if it only has the toilet we call it the toilet.
We also call thongs pluggers. A thong here is called a G-String.
Petrol Station = Servo (no one actually says petrol station)
There's a difference between colloquial and more formal contexts. Servo is only ever used in colloquial contexts while petrol station is the standard term.
@@thevannmann In 35 years I've never heard anyone say "I'm going to the petrol station." it has always been "I'm going to the servo."
@@HowlingCurve Because that's everyday speech, literally what I wrote my guy. On the contrary, in more formal print media, you will more likely encounter "petrol station", "fuel station" or "service station". "Servo" is more colloquially used. "Petrol station" is more formal and found more in text form. If you google "nearby servos" the first words to pop up at the top are "Petrol station".
In Australia i can't say we have any varient of "biscuits and gravy" we'll usually have our scones with jam and cream.
Also you'll often find in alot of Australian houses that our toilet and bathroom are in separate rooms.
"Doona" is Aussie slang for "quilt". I've said quilt all my life. If you want to buy one of those, you go into a store and almost all of the time the label on the product will say "Quilt". (Unless the manufacturer is trying to be cute lol.) That's the inner "padded" part. The thing you put that in, which comes with a set of bed sheets (or more likely, you buy separately), is called a "quilt cover". Pretty simple, I don't know why she had to complicate it with "doona" lol
I believe the word "Doona" was originally a popular brand name that, over time, became synonymous with all quilts/duvets. A bit like in the UK where all vacuum cleaners are generally called "Hoovers".
As an Aussie it’s rare to call it a quilt but I have heard nans call it that. I’ve always known it as a doona and a doona cover.
Wellies comes from Wellington boots, named after the general I think.
I'm in Melbourne and iv always called them bathers!!!!!! Iv never said togs
Always bathers in Tasmania too
I always thought togs was a QLD word. I’m in NSW and I call them cozzies.
@@JudeAussie u r right togs in qld
Cozzies, swimmers, togs, bathers... they're all used in Australia and regional.
In Australia a lot of times the toilet is in a separate room than the shower/bath/sink. We use loo as well & dunny sometimes. But we'd normally say "where's the toilet?, going to the toilet" because they're often separate & that's why Emma was confused.
In Australia we do have a piece of bedding called a comforter which is pattened stuffed cover that you need to wash the hole thing but a doona is more of an insert that you buy a cover with your pattern and wash cover more often than the doona
WTF Miles? 😂
Biscuits and Gravy? 🤮
Keep up the hilarious content , Boys.
Biscuits and gravy are in kfc and many other places in the Us- it’s a savoury scone
Thongs were named thongs in Australia before G Strings were even invented.
We wear our thongs on our feet!!!! 😆
An Aussie bathroom usually has a shower and/or bathtub & sink, or off a main bedroom it's the 'ensuite' and typically has shower, sink and a toilet but the throne itself is 'the dunny'. If you're visiting friendlies, you might ask "Where's your dunny?" Out-n-about you'd be looking for the "public dunnies" If you're with company that expects better manners, you'd be asking for directions to the 'toilet'.
Calling someone a 'dickhead' seems to invoke more emotion in the US, but here it can vary from an outright insult to almost a term of endearment for your best friends.
On utube imdall some politicians Richard Cranium as a veiled insult! 😆
In Australia the closest we have to an american biscuit would be a scone (although not 100% the same). We don't do scones and gravy. A scone is most likely plain in flavour (neither sweet nor salty) and commonly served as a snack with a dollop of jam (jelly) and cream on top. Although you can get other varieties like dried fruit mixed in (like the fruit in a xmas cake), and cheese is sometimes done, not as popular though.
And pumpkin scones too.
We called them G strings in Australia
Uk call it motorway. Wellies is short for Wellingtons. Arthur Wellesley, more commonly known as the Duke of Wellington, who popularised the shoe in 1817
9:18 articulated lorry for the big ones, lorry for the medium (rigid) ones and Van for the small ones.
Australians do know the word duvet though. Interestingly both doona and duvet originate from Old Norse words "Dýna" and "dúnn" (which mean very similar things), but took two very different geographical paths. Doona came from the danish word "dyne" which originated from "Dýna" and duvet came from the french word "dum,dun" which came from "dúnn". Basically blame the vikings LOL.
We say dyne in Norwegian.
People should watch English comedian Michael McIntyre's hilarious stand up on the differences of what things are called 🤣.
That would be a no for the biscuits and gravy, scones are also sweet.
There is a liquor store in Oxford street Sydney called Lick Her Store lol
LOL !!
In Japan there is a chain of stores called Liquor Off.
It never fails to amuse me.
The last answer is Motorway. We also use Motorway in Australia if it only has proper motorway style entry/exit ramps.
I'm an Aussie and I call it a semi-trailer, not a truck. Trucks are smaller, much smaller. The UK woman said "lollies for us are sweets on a stick." Well we call sweets on a stick "lollipops". One thing about Australia is we always separated the loo (toilet) from the main bathroom. In more recent years the building industry has followed the American way and added ensuites to master bedrooms and they include a loo. Usually a toilet is a small room and in the good old days they were outside or in a back area like just off a laundry to keep odours from the rest of the house. When they used to be outside they were known as outhouses. My house was built in 2003 and the older home I grew up with in 1958 and units I lived in in the 1990s and ALL had separate toilets. We used to say "Where's the loo?" more than using the term 'toilet'. I agree with supermarket.
Grocers to the British woman meant a shop that just stocks fruit and vegetables. In Australia we used to have grocery shops in the early 60's when I grew up and we had a grocer home deliver our shopping. But the only term that uses 'grocer' in Australia now are greengrocers in malls and they are the shops that only sell fruit and vegetables. We never just shorten that to grocers because in the past the term grocers meant so much more than just fruit and vegetables.
Well I don't call it a doona. I call it a quilt. We call g-strings, 'g-strings' so Lucy got it right even though she didn't realise it at the time. We call it petrol stations or service stations because they have a lot of other things to buy inside the shop and in the old days they used to service your car (not now). Petrol makes sense. They do sell LPG Gas as well because some cars run on gas. But gas is not liquid and I never could understand the American way of thinking until now realising it is a shortform for 'gasolene'. Never thought of that. I would call them trousers or slacks and the only other type would be the denim ones that are called jeans. That's it for men's clothing. I guess some people could call them pants but that can be misconstrued with underpants.
On the origin of "Wellies", shortened from Wellington Boots. These boots were originally leather. The Duke of Wellington shortened the design of cavalry boots, which were easier to put on/off. Since Waterloo in 1815, this popularised term was transferred to rubber boots in the UK.
I love Phezz's comment..."Lucy hit me up I'll help you with your lighting". It is blown out a bit!
In Australia it can be the bathroom if being polite or the dunny , toot, loo there are many slang names
There is no argument and it's not about the cut guys. French Fries (as you would call them) originated in Belgium, not France. The confusion stems back to when US soldiers discovered them when serving in Europe. Most believe that while eating them for the first time in France, the US soldiers returned home calling them French Fries simply because that is where they first tried them. Others believe the US soldiers were in fact trying them in Belgium and simply believing they were in France at the time.
Either way, it's well recognized that the origins are from Belgium, not France.
It's quite normal for Australian houses to not have a toilet in the bathroom (where the shower and bath are). The toilet is in its own little room. The first time I lived in a place where the toilet was in the bathroom, I was horrified by the proximity of the toilet to where toothbrushing etc takes place.
26:47 it comes from Wellington which is a boot brand
Have seen this vid before, Lucy calls it a motorway
Wellys - contraction for Wellingtons ... To my undertanding named after the British General (later Lord) Wellington (who lead the British forces during the Nepoleonic wars). He has boots made that included rubber soles so that his troops would suffer less from foot infections, improving their performance and ability to manevour (critical during a time when all armies were largely limiting to moving at the rate of their slowest personnal on foot.
@18:30 Elizabeth Báthory from the 1500's was well after the Roman communal Baths
@29:29 It's a Servo (Service Station)
There is even an English town called Bath after the Roman baths it contains. As the name dates back to Saxon times (~900) the idea it is anything to do with a Hungarian is nonsense.
Galoshes are actually shoe coverings only really big enough to protect your shoes so you can easily take them off upon entering a house and still have your shoes on. They don't really have enough structure to be worn on their own.
She said it "Roadway". We say Supermarket in NY. GROCERY STORES are the little stores in the corner (mom and pop) or "Bodega". Also, we call a place that sells liquor, a liquor store. Call a truck a truck, semi truck, or tractor trailer.
7:43 if they're soft and chewy like the picture, they're cookies, if they're more hard and crunchy, they're biscuits
Aussies use the Loo as well.
Galoshes are the term for a shoe or boot that you slip over your shoes to act as protection from rain/mud. A gumboot you would not put on over shoes. 'Wellies' are actually short for 'wellington boots', made popular by one of the Dukes of Wellington.
I had corn bread and brisket for the first time this week.
Cornbread was much different than what I thought it would be, it was quite sweat and cake like. brisket was basically what I expected just nicer.
Americans seem very scared of the word Toilet lol. Whereas the rest of the world has no issues with it. Also most houses here don't have the toilet in the bathroom.
21:47 Doona it’s an Australian trademark which comes from the Swedish word Dun which means Down🪶🪽
the word “toilet” is derived from the French word “toilette”, which means “dressing room”. This “toilette” in turn comes from the French word “toile”, meaning “cloth”. Specifically, it refers to the cloth draped over someone’s shoulders while their hair was being groomed.
The truck is a Prime Mover as any Transformer fan can attest to watching Optimus Prime.
Wellies without any explanation! Wellington Boots. You don't just drop an abbreviation and ignore it's origin.
_Wellington boots are a type of footwear that originated from a style of military riding boot, specifically the Hessian boots. They were popularized by Arthur Wellesley, the 1st Duke of Wellington_
A thong is a "Y" shaped strap, so a G-string and the strap on flip flops are thongs.
Thong= g-string, g-banger, fanny flosser.
Liquor store bottle-o
‘You sit on a throne of lies!’ = Elf
In the old days when they were filled with duck feathers, doonas were called "eider-downs". "Doona" may have come from the Danish word "dyne" meaning "down". "Wellies" is short for "Wellington boots".
18:18 my bathroom has a bath, shower and sink in it, the toilet has just a toilet in it.
Biscuits and gravy does not exist outside the US
in australia most toilets are seperate to the bathroom
I'm Canadian living in Aus so when we came her I got weird looks when I asked for the bathroom. I still can't say toilet!
I do appreciate separate toilets!!
I'm an Aussie and hot or cold they are chips but we do call them fries at times like at fast food places. We do sometimes say cookies but mostly biscuits.
Yes , we in Australia call it a pisser and shitter 😂
We say going for a Slash
Only men call it that! Women call it the loo or little girls room. 😆
Only disgusting uncouth men would say that please don’t give us a bad name lol
In Australia, most toilets are separate from the bath room, so yes you do ask where is the toilet, the pissa or the shitta or the shithouse, or the loo
Guys i have got a shower and bath in my main bathroom toilet is a separate room. I can’t think of anything worse than having a toilet in the bathroom.
As an Aussie - a lot of our answers will have differences since most regions/states have their own colloquial versions of certain things. But let's see how we go ...
Bangs is OK, most younger girls say that older people will say fringe
Chips are thin-sliced fried potato (cold) in packets or THICK cut hot chips we'd get from the fish and chip shop. Fries are THIN cut hot chips usually from Macca's and other Fast Food places
Most Aussie houses have separate toilets ... a toilet in your bathroom would probably lower the value of your house and gross people out in this booming housing market :p The actual toilet is referred to as: the toilet, loo, dunny, shitter, crapper, pisser and a few other things depending on where you live. A 'Thunderbox' was the old outside toilet back in the 'old days' before town connected sewage.
We wear thongs on our feet, also referred to as 'Double Pluggers' if your old or bogan enough ;) Women wear G-Strings or G-Bangers. The humble Aussie Thong was around a long time before the fashion style came around ;)
We call 'bathing suits' - swimmers, cossies, swimming costumes, togs, bathers etc it's a regional thing. Togs and Cossies would probably be the most used ... you have no idea of the confusion of my first day at school in Queensland after moving here from New South Wales and I was told to put my Port in the Port Rack and put my Togs on ...
The closest we'd have to your 'Biscuits and Gravy' would be dumplings in a stew or maybe a traditional Yorkshire pudding with a Sunday Roast. And both aren't really that common nowadays. Our Scones are lighter and fluffier and made to be eaten with sweet fillings or topped with jam and cream etc
Some people might say Service Station, but most people would say 'Servo' - which leads directly to the Bottle'O, the place we buy alcohol. Pubs may have a Liquor Barn attached to it which is basically a much bigger (usually) Bottle'O. While the legal drinking age in Australia is 18 - we can only purchase alcohol (and this includes all beers and wines) at a Bottle'O, Pub or licensed Club. We can't buy alcohol in Supermarkets, Convenience stores, etc
Highways go long distances between cities, towns and states all around the country (Australia has the longest National Highway in the world) and can be single lane, double, 4 lanes and more - depending on how close to population centres they are. Freeways and Motorways are all in our major cities and are designed to move people efficiently (hahaha!!) into and out of our CBD's. We also have Toll Roads which are essentially the same - but we have to pay each time we use them.
Trucks are called Semi's by most people, actual Truckies will use the more technical names like Dog and Trailer etc but we also have 'Road Trains' when the truck is pulling a number of trailers all linked up behind it.
A Doona is a quilt ... I'm a bloke so I see no difference between all the names, to be honest ... call it what you like, just make sure it's ready to go when it gets down to a bitterly cold 10c (50f) here in Brisbane in Winter :p
highways in England are called motorways 🤣
emma saying petrol station and not servo is a hate crime
They're both correct. Servo is more commonly spoken in everyday situations while petrol station is the standard, more formal terminology.
Agree! How could she let us down !!
Speedo is a brand, as you've said. I hear so many Americans say that someone is wearing 'a Speedo'. No.....I've never heard anyone say, when they've jeans on, that they're wearing 'a Levi'. You wear a pair of Speedos, just as you'd be wearing your Levis, or a pair of Levis or jeans. You do it with LEGO as well. You cannot step on "a LEGO". You step on a piece of LEGO. You don't eat "a bread". You eat a piece, or a slice of bread. Whenever I hear an American say "are those your kids' LEGOs?"......ah, no. That's a pile of my kids' LEGO. You stepped on a LEGO? A LEGO what? A LEGO plane, car, or perhaps just a single LEGO brick?
Yeah, here the word toilet isn't considered wrong or obscene. But it seems USA views it as impolite. If I'm at a shopping centre, I'd say "where's the toilets"
Ive seen that one before, the video was cut down, their was definitely more interaction between the girls in the original, like yeah we call Gas Stations, Petrol Stations, but Emma also explained we also call them service stations usually just shortened to Servo
Lots of Aussie houses have the toilet separate to the bathroom. It's common to have a toilet in a separate part of the house, without a sink. In older houses we would have the toilet in a hut in the backyard, that's called a Dunny.
My house in Melbourne Australia we have 3 different rooms to our Bathroom
One room has a bath and sink, one has just the toilet, and the last has a shower and sink.
We Aussies also say flats for apartments and servo for petrol stations. You’d say, “I’m heading out to the servo.”
Some Aussies say wellies - it’s short for Wellingtons. But generally we’d say gumboots.
Keep in mind there is a distinction between flats and apartments. A 40 storey high apartment is always such and never called a flat while a 1970s built block of flats rents out flats not apartments.
The Aussie only called it a bathroom because the shower is in it. We usually have a room with just a toilet in it which is just the toilet. The bathroom usually doesn't have a toilet in it.
Well, I dunno guys. Nabisco ( National biscuit company) makes your "cookies", such as: Oreos, Chips Ahoy and Nutter Butter.
In Australia highways have traffic lights but freeways have no lights but there are speed limits.
It's neither a lorry or a truck. That's a prime mover or tractor. A lorry or truck is an extend chassis and does not have a 5th wheel
In Australia there’s 3 ways to say the highway there’s highway free way and motorway the motorway is a bigger version of a high way found in places like the ACT which is short for Australia’s Capital Territory
French Fries were invented in Belgium.
In Australia we say apartment and flats. Usually flats aren't as high rise or are low budget. Apartments are more high rise and expensive.
The word “bath” comes from the Old English word “bæþ”, which referred to a bath or a bathing place.
This word is derived from the Proto-Germanic word “bathiz”, which is also the source of the Modern German word “Bad” and the Dutch word “bad”.
The word “room” comes from the Old English word “rūm”, which means “space” or “chamber”. This word is derived from the Proto-Germanic word “rūmiz”, which is also the source of the Modern German word “Raum” and the Dutch word “ruimte”.
The term “bathroom” was first used in the 18th century to refer to a room with a bathing apparatus, such as a tub or a shower.
Brits have motorways like the M1, random how she missed that answer lol .. we Aussies don't do the biscuit gravy thing we have scones (pronounced on not own btw) and have them with jam and cream. We do savoury scones like pumpkin or onion just not with the gravy.. I must try those next Im in the states, good vid
No we mostly say servo ( service station) or petrol station. Bottle shop or liquor store some say bottle o but I don't
Guys!! let's clarify a few things its a bathroom, trucks a broad term that pic was a semi-trailer, it's a doona or quilt, Thongs notice the s not a thong in underwear, service station or just servo sometimes petrol station, Bottle shop or just Bottle-O to serve or sell you need a liquor licence, its a footpath, different terms a highway is a general term a freeway is no traffic lights and tolls a motorway has a toll.
In Western Australia we call them bathers or bikini for 2 piece.
Actually, in Australia, Truckies call them Semi's. Trucks are non articulated vehicles. Looking at the picture, I would call that a taut liner, as it has curtains that are pulled taut after loading. Another fun fact is that England has a dish that sounds similar to a biscuit, and it's called Yorkshire Pudding.
Until recently, toilets and bathrooms were separate in most Australian homes. The idea of having a toilet in a bathroom is something we've imported from America which I personally find somewhat unsanitary but when I was a kid we would definitely use seperate words for each
We mostly say the bush, when referring to the forest in Australia