Thread: what is a dado?

And then you've got people calling their vacuum cleaner a 'hoover', even when it's an Electrolux.

Originally Posted by IanW

They spell it 'rabbet' - all females, presumably.

The Septics aren't the only ones slaughtering the lingo - try reading a few exam papers from tertiary students these days.
And good English-speaking stock corrupted 'surfeit' into 'soffit' a long, long time ago......
Just be thankful we're all bilingual Try dropping some of our well-known terms on a Nth. American if you want to see blank looks!
Cheers,

I know I spelled rabbet as rabbit but that was just poetic license.
It took me years of watchin 'Neighbours' to learn Australian meanings let alone yankee English.
My old school headmaster must be turning in his grave at the change in the language.
The school was formed during Henry VIIIs reign with Anne Boleyn and thought of Shakespeares English as being new fangled.

Dado and Mumo will be quite distressed to hear that Dado is really a rabbit.

Prithy thee adorn thy quene, Anne Boleyn, were thoust not of the same ilk?
Did'st thee partake in yonder greene downe, being of full glad and not to be spyde upon.
Oh Fayr Mayd.
Sorry, couldn't help myself, transcribe ancient music text and tablature as a hobby.
Of course you could tell me to mond my own business

A core ding two mye inglish teechur eye nevur did lurn too speek inglich wright an propper

Originally Posted by Dewy

A core ding two mye inglish teechur eye nevur did lurn too speek inglich wright an propper

Never mind Dewy..
I have this spelling chequer
It comb with my PC
It picks up all the miss steaks
As any won can sea.

(I've seen various versions of this, and some are much better, but can't remember them off the top of my head)
Avagooday,

Hmmmm..... my spider senses are starting to tingle!

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I had problems with some Aussie (not wood-working ones) terms when we first arrived here:


1. Tea: For me tea is tea is tea. Then on telly I saw Malcolm Whatsisname catching a massive barramundi up north and then he said he was going to have it for tea!? :eek: I wondered what he was having for coffee, a great white shark perhaps?

2. Supper: The evening meal for me (or synonymously, dinner). Then at a school parents' meeting, it said on the sheet "Supper will be served. Bring a plate." Bewdy, methinks, I go to the school meet, bringing my own clean plate along, but where's my supper mate, just these bleeding cakes that everybody brought on their plates!

There's a few more, but I'll stop there.

You think that's bad. I only moved from Victoria to NSW and suddenly tea became dinner, dinner became lunch, togs became swimmers, and footy became aerial ping pong. Fags also became ciggies, but that's a different story I think...

When I lived in the Phillipines the common daily language was English. When I spoke Australian it was considered a foreign language because nobody could understand it.

Originally Posted by Grunt

Dado and Mumo will be quite distressed to hear that Dado is really a rabbit...

...and he's really a bit of a dildo.

Originally Posted by AlexS

...and he's really a bit of a dildo.

Which of course is a small marsupial that looks a bit like a rabbit.

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To further confuse the yanks we should start calling rabbits, bilbies.

We'd go down to Carba-tec and order a CMT Bilbying bit.

Originally Posted by silentC

Fags also became ciggies, but that's a different story I think...

The first time I used an American chat program and typed that I rolled fags I got auto bounced out for 30 minutes. When I got back someone in the room asked what happened so I said what I had typed and this time got auto bounced for 24 hours.
How was I to know that a fag means something else to the yanks?
Rolling a fag means something far worse to them.
It took an email to get reinstated.
Fortunately my email was answered by one of the program owners who later changed the text filters to allow for the Oxford dictionary meaning.