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Australian English language is now largely Americanised, a process that started in the post-war era is now mostly complete.

• Terms such as ‘gaol’ have been widely replaced by ‘jail’.
• ‘Programme’ is mostly replaced by ‘program’.
• A ‘car bonnet’ is likely to be called a ‘hood’.
• ‘Play lunch’ is mostly replaced with ‘recess’.
• ‘Pusher’ is mostly called a ‘pram’
• ‘Lacker band’ is now mostly just ‘rubber band’.
• ‘Boomer’ no longer means kangaroo, but instead ‘Old person.’

I’m not really bothered by it or anything, but it’s been interesting to see it shift even over my lifetime.

Australian English language is now largely Americanised, a process that started in the post-war era is now mostly complete.

• Terms such as ‘gaol’ have been widely replaced by ‘jail’.
• ‘Programme’ is mostly replaced by ‘program’.
• A ‘car bonnet’ is likely to be called a ‘hood’.
• ‘Play lunch’ is mostly replaced with ‘recess’.
• ‘Pusher’ is mostly called a ‘pram’
• ‘Lacker band’ is now mostly just ‘rubber band’.

I’m not really bothered by it or anything, but it’s been interesting to see it shift even over my lifetime.

Australian English language is now largely Americanised, a process that started in the post-war era is now largely complete.

• Terms such as ‘gaol’ have been widely replaced by ‘jail’.
• ‘Programme’ is mostly replaced by ‘program’.
• A ‘car bonnet’ is likely to be called a ‘hood’.
• ‘Play lunch’ is mostly replaced with ‘recess’.
• ‘Pusher’ is mostly called a ‘pram’
• ‘Lacker band’ is now mostly just ‘rubber band’.

I’m not really bothered by it or anything, but it’s been interesting to see it shift even over my lifetime.