Takeaway? That's food, innit?! [I Speak Old English]

@BlueMetalChick It's a Brit/US difference I believe.

@PhilDeep Could be. I'm always confused because I'm a Serb who learned English from an Aussie but I live in America. So I go to maths class and watch telly and I put jam on my toast, but my car has a hood and a trunk and for dessert I'll have a cookie and in gym class today we played soccer.

@BlueMetalChick Take-Out US and Canada. Take-Away Aust, NZ and I presume UK.

@KiwiBird I didn't retain much Australian English from my time spent living in Port Douglas but one specific term did stick, and to this day I still refer to cigarettes as durries.

@BlueMetalChick I haven't heard it used that much although I have heard of it. It maybe more of a Queensland thing....and notsomuch down south. Cig or fag here. South Aust.

@KiwiBird If it is a Queensland thing, that would make perfect sense because I picked that term up before I actually held residence in the country. One of the soldiers that took me out of Yemen, where I was born, was a woman of Nepalese ethnicity who had been born and raised in Brisbane. She smoked a lot, and used the term durries, and that's where I learned it.

She also said "strewth" a lot, and although I don't say it out loud, I hear that word in my head fairly often.

@KiwiBird @BlueMetalChick Durries used to be used quite a bit NSW, but seems to be going out of style.

@Bushranger I gotta get back down there one of these days. I haven't been to Aus in well over ten years now.

@BlueMetalChick How much of the country have you seen?

@Bushranger Not as much as I'd like to have, but I did explore quite a bit of Victoria when I first arrived in the final months of 2004. I've never gotten too far west unfortunately but I got to see a good portion of the eastern coastline. I learned to surf when I was about eleven or so, and I spent quite a lot of time looking for good beaches for it.

@BlueMetalChick If you get back here, check out the inland. It's my favourite part.

@Bushranger My one and only trip inland was a little extreme but so rewarding. I got to spend about a week in the Outback doing some amateur herpatology. I'm a reptile enthusiast, so finding wild monitor lizards and snakes to interact with was one of my most enjoyable experiences.

@BlueMetalChick Whereabouts did you go? I'm a big fan of the red sand areas. beautiful countryside.

@BlueMetalChick we say take-away here in South Africa too.

@basilfawlty89 South Africa was settled by both the Dutch and English, wasn't it? I'm assuming that the term takeaway probably came from the English influences.

@Bushranger We were around Broken Hill, mostly. It was the hottest time of the year, which could get pretty uncomfortable but it was excellent for finding coldblooded reptiles. I have an old photograph of myself holding a five and a half foot long monitor lizard that my sister took.

@BlueMetalChick Beautiful animals. The goannas we get around here only get to about three or so feet.

@Bushranger They're funny things, goannas, they have a surprising amount of personality.

@BlueMetalChick Sure do, I don't think many people would realise that.

Broken Hill is a nice place, but a bit too big for my liking.

@Bushranger It is a little busy, yeah. I still wanna get down to Coober Pedy though. I remember going to the natural history museum here in Chicago and among the many dinosaur skeletons they had on display, one of them was a brachiosaur that they'd dug up in Coober Pedy and one of its ribs had entirely opalized. It was the coolest thing, a huge dinosaur with a rib bone made of opal.

@BlueMetalChick Strewth is a contraction of a phrase 'God's Truth' it is English but probably used more in Aussie than England. There is probably more Cockney ryhming slang used in Australia than Britain.

@KiwiBird I know a surprising amount of rhyming slang mostly from having read "A Clockwork Orange" and then going out of my way to research it lol

@BlueMetalChick Coobar Pedy is a lovely place. If you get out that way, have a look at Lake Hart, Woomera, Roxby Downs and Andamooka. An interesting mix of Australian history.

@KiwiBird I think most of our slang has British origins, with some local modifications.

@BlueMetalChick Coober Pedy is interesting...underground homes to stay out of the heat. Rough red-neck town. Mad Max Beyond the Thunderdome was filmed around there. Great part of the South Australian Outback,