Keano Deano asked:
In Australia we have Unleaded Petrol (most common), LPG (gas) and Diesel
But americans call petrol gas, why is that? I have never heard an american say they need to fill the car up with petrol.
I never put a shrimp on the barbie, and a dingo hasn’t taken my baby either
In Australia we have Unleaded Petrol (most common), LPG (gas) and Diesel
But americans call petrol gas, why is that? I have never heard an american say they need to fill the car up with petrol.
I never put a shrimp on the barbie, and a dingo hasn’t taken my baby either
It is short for GASOLINE.
Just like Petrol is short for petroleum (or something like that).
Good Luck…
P.S. You’ll never hear an American say put another shrimp on the barbie either.
P.P.S. I was joking about that barbie thing. I was hoping you get it… One of my favorite actress is Yvonne Strahovski (one of your hot Aussi export) – and she was talking about that – so we know here in the USA. We say it as a joke about the joke.
The word gas makes us giggle. I got gas today. Gas = **** = funny = takes the sting off the insane prices!
very easy my friend. It is the same reason why Americans use a standard system instead of metrics. Drive on the right side instead of the left. And try no to drive economically and overuse the land and its resources. To be cocky, and different. To show the world that they are the best because they utilize the most resources and used different terms and systems
Its short for gasoline. But I think a better question is why do people everywhere else call it petrol.
Seriously though, I’m American and I don’t understand a lot of the things we do. For example, why are we basically the only country who doesn’t use the metric system?
Lover – you’ll never hear an Australian say Put another shrimp on the barbie either. We ROFL when we hear Yanks say that.
EDIT:
P’rushim – We don’t call a pond a billabong. We call ponds, ponds. A billabong is either an oxbow lake formed when a loop of a waterway is cut off from the main stream or a largish pool of water left when a waterway partly dries up.
Samuel – Why is a contraction of the word ‘gasoline’ more correct than a contraction of the word ‘petroleum’? It seems to me that they’re about equal.
Evo741… – A trunk is an elephant’s nose (or a big portable carrying case) and a hood is also an item of headwear – pilgrim headgear and an item of footwear are no stranger than those terms.
My point with any of the above is not that the words we use are better than the American ones, just that English speakers from different countries have their own sub-set of English and isn’t that a good thing? It’s not nearly as boring as a dead language like Latin.
I’ve never even heard an Australian put a shrimp on a barbie!
…why do Australians call a pond a billaybong…? Just different strokes for different folks… It is gasoline…just gas for short I guess…
Just as it is Gasoline the right terminology for so called petrol in east and benzene in Mediterranean..
I suppose its just like good day.. just a different lingo.
BTW, AU accents are the coolest lol
Why do the Brits call a trunk a boot and a hood a bonnet?? A boot is something that goes on your foot and a bonnet is something pilgrims wore.
Cultural differences. Nothing more than that.
And LPG stands for Liquified Petroleum Gas.
All cultures have different words all across the world. You say petrol we say gas, some people say telli and we say tv. In aussie you all have a unique way of talking because your speech is a combination of many other languages. In one side of aussie one term could mean something completely different from the other. Example: in Queensland isn’t Rosella a type of fruit, but in Northern NSW there are known as birds.
Aussie is known to have British English Influence (adding UK english to aussie vocab), Irish English Influence (adding Irish english to aussie vocab), 20th century Australian English (contributed in WW1), Contemporary Australian English Influence (the Americanization of Australian English (mix of UK and USA), and so on.
And im not Australian ;o) lol
what is the best brand of motorcylcle tire anyway ?.,`
the motorcycle tires i use is tubeless and it much better than traditional tires,`-
steel belted motorcylce tires last very long and they do not slip on wet roads ::
Thanks that was a great read. I can’t believe it , but my wife and I will have been married 10 years next week. Our first anniversary was in Italy, and had some incredible shrimp salad in this little restaurant in Rome. I’ve been looking all over the internet for a decent sounding recipe to see if I can make something myself to surprise her, and I even found a shrimp salad recipes website full of them! Thought you might like to know, you can find anything on the net nowadays it seems!