Today’s Adventure
It’s been a while since I made a post here, but this is a good one…. here’s how my day has been, as reported on facebook.
9:00am Sunday 10 January, 2021
3:00pm, Sunday 10 January, 2021
NB: International readers please note that “thongs” in Australia refers to flip-flops aka a type of plastic shoe often worn at the beach since they’re so easy to slip on and off.
Felicity Banks 
benoitsmithfr said,
January 11, 2021 at 9:10 pm
In France, thongs are known as… “tongs”!
Thank you for such a thrilling read!
Felicity Banks said,
January 11, 2021 at 9:16 pm
In the year 2000 I was living in Indonesia and the “Thong Song” was super popular. My Indonesian friends were shocked when I explained what he was singing about.
benoitsmithfr said,
January 16, 2021 at 2:58 am
Owch, I didn’t know about the *other* meaning…
Felicity Banks said,
January 16, 2021 at 5:36 am
Oh! The other two that come up constantly between US and Australian English are:
Fanny pack…. ‘fanny’ is old-fashioned, but very rude. (And there are probably some old British women with Fanny as a name, which is just tragic to us Aussies.)
“Rooting for”… has the bizarre meaning of ‘having sex for’ when in Australia.
Felicity