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In today’s notes from this Aussie reading a book by Americans that’s set in Australia:
❌”Trucks” — ✅ Utes
❌”Field” — ✅ Paddock
❌ “Chickens” — ✅ Chooks
❌ Miles — ✅ Kilometres
And of course
❌Pickle — ✅ Pickles (a sandwich spread)

Ok as an Australian reading this book about an American girl visiting her Australian Gran… so far this sounds as though it’s been written by people who googled Aussie sayings and Aussie staple foods but misinterpreted their use. The sandwiches “with pickles” for example became gherkins eaten separately, an American interpretation of “pickles”— which should have been a spread, inside the sandwich 😂