So when you make those little Venn diagrams with England and Australia and America and you compare the English spoken in each -- there are lots of words that are shared between England and Australia and a couple between Australia and America, but I can only find one between England and America (to the exclusion of Australia): woods.
Australians, it would seem, call it "bush."
Friday, February 11, 2011
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Indeed. We'd probably only use "woods" when referring to a managed forest (like the ones where pine tree are grown for housing material or eucalypts are grown for power poles) and even then we wouldn't - we'd call it forest or plantation.
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