That's so kewl

Shades of Daughter #1! Kat, you may be deliberately playing on your knowledge of Ozspeak but, in case your comment was a happy accident, I'll pass the info on.

The differences between Oz regions and their pronunciations of "English" are not as great as in the US but there are some. In NSW generally (and Sydney particularly) my ear hears "school" pronounced "skewl" A while ago I was having a discussion on this with Daughter #1 (born in northern NSW and having lived here for all of her life) and mentioned that, in Melbourne (where both her parents were brought up) "it was coool to say 'school'".

Her immediate response was to say "Well, Dad. here it's kewl to say 'skewl'".

Where would we be without adolescence?

Have fun with that "Flea dance", Kat.

Cheers, Rowan