But Americans and Canadians use the term 'elevator', and British, Australians, Irish, New Zealanders and South Africans use 'lift' when discussing the same thing.
28 AUSTRALIAN SLANG Words/Phrases (That You Need to Know!)
What do Australians call sidewalks?
It is called a sidewalk in American English, but can also be called a pavement (mainly British English and South African English), a footpath (Australian English, Irish English, Indian English and New Zealand English) or footway (Engineering term).
The word Verandah simply means; a place that leads outdoors. As Australia love their out doors and as such almost every homes in Australia is built with a verandah.
A chasing game where one child is in or it or up and has to catch another child and tag them: The kids were playing tiggy on the quadrangle. Compare chasey, chasings, tag, tig, tip2.
Flip-flops are also called thongs (sometimes pluggers) in Australia, jandals (originally a trademarked name derived from "Japanese sandals") in New Zealand, and slops or plakkies in South Africa and Zimbabwe. In the Philippines, they are called tsinelas.
dacks (daks) – trousers, most likely derived from the London clothier Daks (founded in 1894). Trackie dacks are tracksuit trousers, and underdacks are underpants or knickers. To dak someone is to pull their pants down.
We call jelly 'jam' and jelly 'jelly'. Whereas Americans call jam 'jelly' and jelly 'jello'. Go figure. [Edit] Here in Australia we call jelly (no fruit in it) jelly and we also call jelly (with fruit pieces) jelly with fruit. We never say jello.
Australians proudly pioneered the use of 'bonk' to mean having sex in the 1980s. And oh boy, once we appropriated 'bonk' as a sex term? We really appropriated 'bonk' as a sex term.
While some Australian speakers would pronounce “no” as a diphthong, starting on “oh” as in dog and ending on “oo” as in put, others begin with an unstressed “a” (the sound at the end of the word “sofa”), then move to the “oh” and then “oo”.
In Australia, the term 'headlights' can be heard frequently, and in next-door New Zealand they use the word 'funbags'. In South Africa, the preferred slang is 'milk cans', while in Uruguay it's 'coconuts'.
Diggers: The word Digger has been around since the early days of the gold rush in Australia and anecdotally there is evidence that some Colonial Australians were given the nickname Digger because of their mining endeavors.
The terms pommy, pommie, and pom used in Australia, South Africa, and New Zealand usually denote a British person. Newspapers in Australia were using the term by 1912, with it appearing first in Western Australia, and was said to be short for pomegranate, with the terms "jimmy" and "jimmigrant" also in use.
