This is Australia....,CALLING.  

We have a thing with CASTLE here also,

In New South Wales and City is called Newcastle.
And here in Victoria we have Castlemaine.

Now this is where the fun begins.

In Victoria we say CAS..SEL, in NSW they say KARSEL.

So very quick you can pick up where they are from.

We in Victoria will say, POTATO CAKES but NSW will say SCOLLOPS now this gets funny if they want Fish type they will say Tasmanian SCOLLOPS. Where we will ask for SCOLLOPS.

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The MEAT PIE is big here in Australia, not a sports even with out it.

A meal in itself.

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Did you ever get trapped when asked to "BRING A PLATE".

This term for those who do not know is if it is said to you here in Australia, means to bring a plate of FOOD.

Some functions or gatherings all pitch in (all help) so we "BRING A PLATE".

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Actually I almost did. My husband used to manage a Golf Club here in North QLD and we had to socialize quite a bit. There was an outing for some of the members of the club and the lady who was a member of the committee invited us and singled me out and asked If I can bring a plate of course if it is only a plate there's no problem at all LOL!I forgot to tell my husband about it until the day of the outing. I told him wait I need to get plates for us as per the organizer's request. I didnt know that it was supposed to be food good thing it was still early to dropby good old KFC to save the day.:)BTW thanks wink!

I do not condemn how people try to speak, I do understand we all travel a different road.

"Thank you Mother for the Rabbits"

I'm not sure where that came from but it is very old Aussie, I think when we had the Depression in the 40/50s we also had a rabbit plague, and that was good in a way as it fed many who were out of work, and Mothers being good cooks as they are always had a pot of rabbit stew on the stove.

And the down and outs for no reason of their own would get a feed at most houses , Yes it was Rabbit stew but better than nothing,

So it got to the point where most would say, "Thank your Mother for the Rabbits" referring to the meal and kindness she showed them.

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My country, too, ate lots of wild game during our depression long ago. I remember in the 50's and 60's my dad went out hunting and would bring home rabbits, squirrels, pheasant and occasionally a deer. Mom grew vegetables in the summer and canned them. We ate like kings and I never guessed we were poor, but we were.

I like that "thank you Mother for the rabbits". It's the expression of a distinctive time and a kind culture.

Whoa, Buffalo NY is not the midwest..I still think of it as the East and we call it pop and I think they call it pop well into Syracuse. And in Boston they called it tonic.

I just feel that when I say Pop and everyone else says soda that I am bi-lingual ( I am grasping at straws here).

2. Ys. U. R.
2. Ys. U. B. I. C.

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Should we even look at The City of MOE.

Not MOW as in I will MOW the lawn.

But MOW..EE = MOE.

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The little water way through the bush, the trickle is a "CREEK"

But in Tasmania they say it as CRICK.

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I say it both ways lol

GEE, that is a very little place,
To go from Melbourne to Sydney in Australia, is about 1000 Kms and 250 Kms.

I will travel 320 Kms to Melbourne and back in a day trip.

Well I have learnt something, and the other thing You would not be hard to find over there in such a small place. HA HA HA.

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Yes, it's a small speck on the map, but it has such diversity it's incrdible.
Packs a lot of history in such a small place too :)
As for learning new things, that's one of the best things about myLot, my friend :)

You might have posted in the OTHER one on Australia.

Small Island and chicken all sounds good to me. Just laze back and watch the World go by.

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Friends say that I am working too hard these days

Thats OK, you can post any time you like thats what is good about this site at myLot.

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