Changing language
Posted: Sat Feb 20, 2016 11:33 am
I didn't know where to put this entry, so I decided to stick it here.
Over the last few years I've thoroughly enjoyed being on this forum & seeing & reading about places, people, cars, speedway items & old photos of mine that have jogged the memories of this old fart.
Something that I noticed early in the piece was the changing language. I suppose it's only logical, as most of anything to do with hot rodding is related to the USA.
( I used to be a mad Ford man myself way back then, owning many, from a 1932 V8 with the single throat carby, to a 1948 Mercury, & a couple of A models before I got into speedway)
For example, 50 odd years ago, we never had fenders, we had mudguards, hoods were bonnets, trunks were boots, rumble seats were dickie seats, pick ups were utes, headers were extractors, wrenches were spanners & a Hilux (or equivalent) wasn't a truck, and the one that got me was "flathead motors", we always called them "side valve" motors, and we parked our cars on the footpath, not the sidewalk.
A lot of the Australian language is being lost to the American influence, but I suppose that is to be expected with the world shrinking the way it is.
I'm not having a bitch, just a rambling observation !
Over the last few years I've thoroughly enjoyed being on this forum & seeing & reading about places, people, cars, speedway items & old photos of mine that have jogged the memories of this old fart.
Something that I noticed early in the piece was the changing language. I suppose it's only logical, as most of anything to do with hot rodding is related to the USA.
( I used to be a mad Ford man myself way back then, owning many, from a 1932 V8 with the single throat carby, to a 1948 Mercury, & a couple of A models before I got into speedway)
For example, 50 odd years ago, we never had fenders, we had mudguards, hoods were bonnets, trunks were boots, rumble seats were dickie seats, pick ups were utes, headers were extractors, wrenches were spanners & a Hilux (or equivalent) wasn't a truck, and the one that got me was "flathead motors", we always called them "side valve" motors, and we parked our cars on the footpath, not the sidewalk.
A lot of the Australian language is being lost to the American influence, but I suppose that is to be expected with the world shrinking the way it is.
I'm not having a bitch, just a rambling observation !