Words are funny things. And so are people. We use words in weird ways and then think it's perfectly normal until an outsider comes and looks at us funny. Here's some things we've had fun with:
You don't play "tag" - you play "tip." And if you are "it" than you are the "tipper."
You don't go to the bathroom. You go to the "toilet." Allison was very taken aback when the teacher told them to "Go wash your hands in the toilet." Ewwww....and then it dawned on her what it actually meant. We had a good chuckle about this on the way home from school.
You don't put your bags in the trunk of your car. You put them in the "boot." Yup, we've been putting our bags in our boot (and it's not even raining out! Umm...okay, maybe you never wore rain boots with bags over your feet inside because they were still wet, but I did!). So we've laughed about this too - of course it turned our "bags" into "booty" (meaning treasure for all you pirates out there - no other meaning allowed!) which isn't an Australian thing, just a silly Munroe thing.
Lucy pointed out today that it's a bit silly that she goes to "nap" school. Yes, the letters of North Ainslie Primary School spells "naps." Which Lucy explained to me in detail on the way to school - she told me that her friends in Canada would find this quite funny.
I'm sure we'll run into other word interchanges as we continue on. But these were the funny ones that have made us laugh with each other. It's fun, because we also get to consider how funny some of our words sound to someone else. Ah language! Ever changing, never boring!
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