An Australian American dictionary

I was talking to John last night about some of the terms I use that go unrecognised or are considered strange here, and there were quite a few. I thought I'd list the ones I can think of off the top of my head.

Fortnight = two weeks
This actually has implications, in that biweekly in Australia always means twice per week, because if we mean fortnightly, we say fortnightly. Also bimonthly is every two months, because twice a month is almost the same as fortnightly.

Frankfurt = hot dog

Hot dog = hot dog on a roll

Tomato sauce = ketchup (or catsup!)

Cheeseburger = cheeseburger, but with nothing else besides the meat and the cheese

Hamburger = hamburger plus any number of other ingredients, probably including cheese

Main course = entree

Entree = appetizer

Prawn = shrimp

Mince = ground beef

Jumper = sweater

Sloppy joe = like a jumper, but lower quality
We don't have the equivalent of the American sloppy joe: it's not something commonly eaten in Australia, and we'd just describe it as mince on a bun

Bun = roll

Shout = pay for, spot

SMS = text

Year 12 = twelfth grade

Primary school = elementary school
We also have different names for later parts of education. Primary school finishes with Year 6, and high school is from Year 7 to Year 12 (in the US generally fifth to eighth grades are middle school, and ninth to twelfth are high school). We never use the terms freshman (ninth grade, or first year at college) and sophomore (tenth grade, or second year at college), and junior (eleventh grade, or third year) and senior (twelfth grade, or fourth year) don't mean the same thing (in an Australian high school, junior refers to anyone in Years 7 to 9 and probably 10, while a senior is a Year 11 or 12, and occasionally 10, student). We also use the casual term "uni" to refer to a university: it fits in basically any context. The word "college" is rarer, and doesn't have a fixed meaning (it can have the same meanings it has in the US, except for the most common, most general meaning, of the entire institution or the experience of going there, which we would call "uni"). We don't refer to "uni" as "school", except accidentally during our first semester there!

Tutorial (tute for short) = recitation, discussion, section, etc.

Bill = check

Note = bill (cash)

One hundred and one = one hundred one

Maths = math

I'll try to add when I think of more.