Wednesday, March 2, 2011
quicko: transport
Australians tend to refer to transportation as "transport" and I always just thought it was a quaint idiosyncratic sort of thing. Turns out "Transportation" used to be used to refer to how long a criminal was sent to Australia for -- i.e., 14 years transportation, etc. -- and thus they differentiate to this day by using "transport" instead.
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