Huh? translation please...

We all speak the same language or do we? Over the past few years I have put together some uniquely American words with the Australian equivalent or if we don't have one, with the meaning of what they are talking about. I have also included just some differences between the countries that you might find interesting, you really can turn against a red light!

Some time I might do a list of Australian words that Americans find completely foreign. People often smile but have a blank look on their face, so you know, they either can't understand our accent or have no idea about what we are talking about, but are too polite to say anything. We have a terrible habit of shortening things - arvo just means afternoon.

Can you add to my list?

USA	Aussie
# is called a pound key	# is called a hash key
4 way stop signs, first person at intersection goes first, then second etc	Stop signs on only one road of cross road or T intersection
401k	Superannuation
50#	50lbs
Air dryer	Clothes horse
Antique car	Vintage car
Appetiser	Entree
Back country	Outback/Bush
Bagged it (expression)	Canned it
Bangs	Fringe
Barbecue	The way food is cooked
Bell Pepper	Capsicum
Bicycle	Push Bike/bicycle
Biscuit	Scone
Boondocking	Free camping
Borough, County?	Municipality (group of suburbs),Shire(group of country towns)
Breaded	Crumbed
Broil	Grill (the top of the oven, not a BBQ)
Bunch of people	Group of people
Car Wreck	Car Accident
Cell phone: both parties pay for call & text	Mobile: only initiator pays for call & text
Cilantro	Coriander
Citation	Fine
Connector	Double adapter
Cookie	Biscuit
Counter top (kitchen)	Bench top
Cutlery	Knives (paring, bread, cooks)
Dang	Darn
Deductible	(Policy) Excess
Diapers	Nappies
Dining group	Dining suite
Drive on the right hand side of the road	Drive on the left hand side of the road
Dry camping	No water or power
Dry Wall	Plaster Board, gyprock
Entree	Main course
Escrow	Settlement (of a property)
Except in the cities, postal boxes are grouped together on the side of the road, sometimes a few streets away from the property address. Often all on one side of the road. Canada is currently moving this way too, probably the way of the future to cut down costs	Every house has its own postal box on the property it relates to even in country towns. Some country properties away from town will have them on the side of the road grouped together
Fall	Autumn
Faucet	Tap
Fillet Mignon (no bacon)	Eye Fillet (filet Mignon when wrapped in bacon)
Fixer Uperer	Renovator's delight
Flat wear	Cutlery
Flip flops	Thongs
Flip key	means turning over a property
French Fries - (if you order chips with food you will get a pkt of chips)	Chips (normal size), French fries (matchstick sized chips)
Gas, gas station	Petrol, petrol station
Grill	A Barbecue
Grocery Store loyalty cards: some give you points for discounts, some points for fuel, some you need to get the discount on advertised prices	Supermarket stores loyatly cards - points for fuel discounts. Everyone gets the advertised price
Have to sign up for separate service for trash collection, not everyone does	Rubbish collection is automatic and paid for in rates in cities, just the size of the bin alters the fee
Highways are numbered and some have mulitple numbers being a state number and a federal number or denoting North or South, East or West. The federal highways are call the interstate eg: i5.	All highways have names as well as numbers but we only use the names on signs
Hood	Bonnet
Imperial	Metric
Ketchup, catsup	Tomato Sauce
Lay Away	Lay By
Left hand drive	Right hand drive
License renewal (of the vehicles)	Vehicle registration (Rego)
Light switch: up is on down is off	Light switch: up is off down is on
Line	Queue
Marinara - Tomato based sauce	Marinara - Seafood in tomato sauce
Medalion	Ceiling Rose
mm/dd/yyyy	dd/mm/yyyy
Move in ready	move in, nothing to do
No Outlet	No Through Road
one of the few countries in the world still not fully converted to chip technology, which means our credit card details have been compromised 3 times in 1 year, we still had the card and never let it out of our sight. Still use a lot of checks	Australia has been using chip technology for years, the last time our credit card was compromised was 20 years ago Cheques are rarely used
One time	One off (situation)
Parking Lot	Car park
Pepperoni	Salami
Pocket Door	Sliding Door
Pocketbook	(something that affects my) Back Pocket
Pot luck	Bring a plate to share
Potty - "have to go potty"	Loo, toilet
Primitive camping	Bush camping
Propane	LPG (liquid petroleum gas)
Ranch	Station or Farm depending on size
Rent (eg: a drill or a car)	Hire (but we rent houses)
Rotted	Rusted
Row Home	Terrace House
RV Park	Caravan Park
Shopping Cart	Shopping Trolley
Side Job	Backyarder
Sidewalk	Footpath
Sod	Turf
Soda, Pop	Soft Drink
Solar panels face south	Solar panels face north
Streets often have S, N, E or W denoting the south, east, north or west portion of the street, the other end will have the opposite. Many streets are just numbers making it easy to find your way around without a map.	No north, south, east or west on streets. Numbered streets are not the norm.
Sweat pants	Tracksuit, Tracky Daks
Sweater	Jumper
Take out, To go	Take away
The property numbering system is boyond me. Something to do with the number of blocks from the centre of town, then the house lot. Nothing is sequential.	Addresses are sequential, with the first being 1 on one side with all the odd numbers, then 2 and the even numbers on the other side
Tires, color, license, traveler, liter, organize, check, blond	Tyres, colour, licence, traveller, litre, organise, cheque, blonde
Trade Out	Trade In
Trash (US), garbage (Ca)	Rubbish
Travel trailer	Caravan
Trunk	Boot
Turn key	walk in walk out, furniture etc included
Turn right at red lights when safe	Will get fined if we turned left at red lights
Wash room or laundry room	Laundry
White gas	Shellite
Windshield	Windscreen
Wood	Timber (for a fire)
Yield	Give Way
You have to sign up for a separate service for trash collection; not everyone does	Rubbish collection is automatic and paid for in rates, just the size of the bin alters the fee
Zip code	Post Code
Winter is December, January, February	Summer is December, January, February
Spring is March, April, May	Autumn is March, April, May
Summer is June, July, August	Winter is June, July, August
Fall is September, October, November	Spring is September, October, November