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“Hello there,” writes sagacious governmental scribe Niki Savva. “My acknowledgment to Nola Tucker (C8) for correcting my grammar. In my defence, English is my 2nd language. I besides person a agelong past with stone cakes. Won’t bore everyone with the details but the java store astatine Merimbula Airport bakes its ain and they are delicious. Whenever we vacation astir there, oregon prime up friends from the airport, we bargain them out.”
Maybe Nola should beryllium the 1 to devour humble stone cake. David McKay of Blaxland has recovered ‘catastrophise’ successful the Macquarie Dictionary.
“Ever wondered conscionable erstwhile the US started to spell disconnected the rails?” challenges Peter Riley of Penrith. “Well, my 1906 Sears Roebuck message bid catalogue offers a genuine Australian metallic wombat overgarment for $28.35 and, for conscionable $2 more, I could person a handgun and ammo delivered to my doorway arsenic well. There’s ya problem!”
We recovered it hard to judge Janet Williams’ metric lark (C8), wherever radical with imperial names were told they would person to alteration them, but William Sommerville of Goulburn backs her up and blames a clump of barefaced “officials successful adjacent Canberra” for the caper. As good arsenic the aforementioned Inch and Pound families, the Tons copped it, too. And determination were miles of Miles’.
Likewise, Les Shearman of Darlington asks: “Did wiseacres go hectarors?”
“Having cooled our heels astatine a ample Sydney infirmary exigency section for acold excessively galore hours recently, we were opening to announcement a trend,” says Colleen Starkey of Mount Colah. “I was being treated by a Dr Annabelle (who looked and sounded similar Miranda Hart) and a Nurse Jenna. We laughed due to the fact that my sister and I some utilized to person fox terriers with the aforesaid names. Then we heard a telephone for a Dr Lucy, different past canine of ours, and for Dr Frankie – our existent ridgeback x. It was astatine this constituent my lad leant towards maine and muttered: ‘If there’s a telephone for a Dr Fui (our departed and scatterbrained Labrador) – marque a tally for it!’”
Resident John Frith noticed a funny motion astatine a fruit-and-vegetable stall astatine Paddington Markets connected the weekend: “All nutrient is natural”. At astir the aforesaid time, Adrian Connelly of Springwood saw “a motion successful a section buying promenade that read: ‘Caution bedewed floor’. ‘OK, bedewed floor, I’m informing you: this is your past chance!’”
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