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It seems to be a bit old-fashioned and predominantly (but not exclusively) British: https://english.stackexchange.com/a/607950 https://english.stackexchange.com
by skissane 2y ago
It seems to be a bit old-fashioned and predominantly (but not exclusively) British: https://english.stackexchange.com/a/607950 https://english.stackexchange.com/a/607950
Obviously Australians are somewhat more influenced by British usage than say Americans are, although not always (e.g. we say “truck” not “lorry”-although we define the word “truck” more narrowly than Americans do)