Comments by "Jeni10" (@Jeni10) on "American Reacts to 100 Aussie Slang WORDS Australia says Different than America" video.

  1. Turn on the telly! (Not teli) Keen : there’s a brand of mustard powder in Australia called Keen’s. So the phrase “keen as mustard” is an old expression that was often used in conversation. Since Aussies have a tendency to shorten things, I think keen has become the shorter version of the expression keen as mustard. Paul Hogan and that advertising campaign, went with shrimp because they knew it would only be shown in America. If they’d used “Put another prawn on the barbie,” Americans might not have understood it. Shrimp are the tiny prawns we see in fried rice. Prawns are everything else except for King Prawns which are longer than your hand.
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  2. A ute is a car that’s made as a utility vehicle so the owner can cart stuff or transport goods without having to buy an expensive van or truck. A ute that has been closed in with doors and roof is known as a panel van.
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  3. Trolly? No, trolley! We used to have trolleys back when we had metal tracks in the road but they were all taken up decades ago as we converted to regular buses and personal vehicles.
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  4. FYI, no Aussie slang is known or used by all Aussies, many of them are very geographically limited to a town or a rural region.
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  5. Avo = avocado. Arvo = afternoon. Australia uses petroleum shortened to petrol. America uses gasoline shortened to gas. American influence has caused the name “gas station” to infiltrate our speech. For Australia, gas applies to gases such as those used for cooking and gas barbecues, as well as neon, helium and so on. Chockers comes from chock’a’block which means full to capacity. Esky is a brand name that has wrongly become the generic name for an ice chest. Biro, manufacturers of ball point pens, had the same thing happen to them but they sued and now everyone says ballpoint and not Biro anymore.
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  6. Adidas, in this case Americans have it wrong, because Adidas comes from the guy’s name, Adolf Dassler = Adi Dassler = Adidas. Potato Gems are a product in Australia manufactured by Bird’s Eye frozen foods.
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  7. Pissed is drunk, pissed off is mad.
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  8. Oh the spelling! It’s knackered. I’ve never heard of some of those, but that’s because most of them are regional.
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