dancers wrote:
quite a few are said down here........
However they are definitely Americanisms.
We picked them up from the abundance
of Hollywood film and US TV shows that are aired down here.
As an aside, back around the mid 60s when I was a 9 or 10
year old a close friend who lived in the same street as me
was the son of an American immigrant. Marshal, my friends
father (was an ex US soldier who helped us fight the Japs
in the Pacific.) said to us boys; An army buddy of mine has moved down here
and runs a hamburger shop in Williamstown, (a 40 mile return journey mind you) jump in the car
and we'll have hamburgers for lunch.
I had no idea what a hamburger was but the way Gregs dad
spoke of it, we knew we were in for a treat... Back then,
hamburgers were unknown down here.
My first hamburger was thanks to a US WWII Pacific theatre vet.
I have to say, Marshal Munneke was one of the nicest blokes
you could ever meet and a lot of that wonderful man
rubbed off on his son Greg.