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Old 07-07-2015, 10:59 AM
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Old 07-07-2015, 11:40 AM
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Unusual for a Septic to be familiar with the sound of a kookaburra - but she is good!

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Old 07-07-2015, 12:41 PM
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You mean Kewkaberra

I love it how Yanks have a total inability to say some words:

Kookaburra (as above)
Emu: E-MOO
G'day : Gid daiy
Herbs: Erbs
Solder = sodder
Centimeter = Sonnameter
Axe: Ask
Ask: Aks (LOL)
New: NOO

I am sure there are some things we don't say right either eh!
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Old 07-07-2015, 01:05 PM
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Old 07-07-2015, 01:08 PM
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No Bo, it's Newcular

Though, I must admit, I hear the vast majority of Australians saying Newcular as well
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Old 07-07-2015, 01:12 PM
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Now, playing semantics, the Yanks are more correct than we are there.

I always like to pronounce things as the inventors did.

The word Missile is derived from the German Mistel (Mistletoe - the fruit/tree), which was a WW2 Wunder Weapon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistel). The Krauts pronunciation of it is closer to missil than missile

Like as much as it PAINS me, I sometimes will use Airplane instead of Aeroplane (and NEVER Plane) - afterall, it was 2 Yanks that created the first successful heavier than air aircraft
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Old 07-07-2015, 04:03 PM
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Lewis - ('Pedant Mode' engaged), you have in mind the Wright Bros., who really did not create the first heavier-than-air aircraft (remember George Cayley [c.1810], or Otto Lilienthal [1890s] ?!).

The Wright lads accomplished [in 1903] the first sustained, controlled and powered heavier-than-air flight.

('Pedant Mode' dis-engaged!)

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Old 08-07-2015, 08:49 AM
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