'throwing your teddy out of the pram'.

Why on earth would a rug-rat be wearing erotic night-wear?...

hey jafo, lets not forget the states have many different regions influenced by many different languages, and yes - the dialect is different every few hundred miles. and as many young, ordinary people do not know the need for specialty tape in tying together duct work, 'duck' is a common misconception people will grow up with and use every day regardless if they wind up knowing the difference between duct and duck.

i'm sure we can find a few aussey words that stem from mis pronunciations or different dialects..

edit: my point is.. you constantly rip on the 'ignorance' of people in the states. considering we're the size of 50 countries in europe with an equal number of different races, i think that gives us the bandwidth to have as many misconceptions as 50 different countries. and amazingly enough, we havn't fought 50 different wars with ourselves.
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you constantly rip on the 'ignorance' of people in the states

Not quite right, but my father was over there in '76 for the Ride across America [Bike-Centennial],,,and came across people who could not understand how Australians did NOT fall off the planet because they were underneath it.

Really a bit sad.

Now, Aluminum is just a type-setting error in Webster's that seems to have stuck through ennui.

Add that to the latest trick of a Co in the US demanding the Macquarie Dictionary alter its 50 year old definition of 'Ugg boot' to include its mention [because it Trade marked a generic term invented in Oz, robbing its legitimate creator/s of a livelihood].

Generally, though it's all about reminding people that the same word means totally different things in different places.

Examples...

'Durex'

'Fanny'....

Oh, and I'm sure if one looks hard enough One is surely to bump into a few dingbats in Oz, too

when I was younge I blew up my microwave by putting alluminum foil in my microwave.... Just to think on mythbusters they said it wont