The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #4741   Message #25975
Posted By: Alan of Australia
20-Apr-98 - 12:31 AM
Thread Name: American Cultural oddities
Subject: RE: American Cultural oddities
G'day,
The magazine "Australian Women's Weekly" has been published monthly for a few years now due to economic constraints. They decided not to change the name to "The Women's Monthly" or "Women's Periodical".............

Only our sentences have full stops.

Date format: what is the logic in having the medium sized unit first, followed by the smallest then the largest??????? We work logically from smallest to largest. Digital watches made in Japan have the American format - very annoying, at least Microsoft gives us a choice!

American cars don't have mudguards or boots either do they? Nor do they run on petrol?

It seems odd to call autumn "fall". Especially here where nothing actually does. Our trees live all year round.

Cheers,
Alan