Austrayliyen??

Reading through yesterday's entry.. and telling the girls at work about my encounter with a porcupine, i realized something quite odd..

Porcupine, is an american word.. Australians call them Ecchidna's.

What planet was I on last night????

I went to work today, and was telling the girls "I saw a Porcupine lastnight" to which they laughed and said

"Porcupine is the american term, we call the Ecchidna's Jane!!"

And the bizzare thing is, I KNOW THAT!!

I know we call them Ecchidna's. What on earth possessed me to call it a Porcupine!

Honestly! Where's my sense of national pride!!

So, it got me thinking about other terms, and words that American's have different terms for.

There was an American exchange student at our school once, and she was totally blown away by our language...

We say Tap, they say Faucet

We say Bracket, they say Parenthases

We say Toilet, They say Lavetory

It was like we were speaking another language, she was constantly saying "Pardon, what was that?"

We say Tomato... they say Tom-hey-to

Lets call the whole thing off!

Sorry, couldn't resist.

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