What's In A Word?

We've all learned some interesting vernacular since we've arrived in Australia. Sharing a few with you all here:

trolley = grocery cart
jumper = sweater or sweatshirt
saltana = raisin
tea = either a cuppa, or, dinner, depending on how it's used in the sentence
petrol = gas
how ya going? = how are you?
mince meat = ground beef
flat white = latte
bather = swimming suit
booking = reservation
biscuit = cookie
can do = OK
bloke = male friend
mate = male or female friend

There are a couple that hurt our ears, so-to-speak, because they are so cumbersome to us. They say "maths" which is short for mathematics. We just say "math". They also pronounce the "h" in herbs, where the "h" is silent when we say it in America.
The letter z, almost never used in Australia (the letter "s" is used in place of it in most spellings) is pronounced "zed".
Here's an interesting one; they spell yogurt "yoghurt".
Almost all the cheese is just labled "tasty cheese"; not cheddar, or muenster, or monterrey jack. There are custards and creams in the dairy section galore; I have no idea what to do with them, but they seem fattening so I just stay away!
They eat lots and lots of lamb; like we eat chicken in America.
All the cookies are hard and crunchy; there is no such thing as a soft baked cookie in Australia. Steve and the kids are trying to get me to make cookies everyday, and then try to sell them. We are all convinced that if they knew what they were missing, they would give up their "hard biscuits". Of course, when you eat them while you are drinking your morning tea, they soften right up, so I think that's what they like.
They don't use any numbers with their letters like, 1st or 3rd. Instead they say the number instead of the month first; 1 (one) June. I've created some major confusion for some of the school administrators when I would forget and put the month first. Whoops!
Every kid at every school in West Australia has to wear a hat when they have recess or activities outside. To not have a hat on invites a warning and/or your right to be outside revoked! They take their sun exposure very, very seriously here. The incidence of skin cancer is very high in this country.
This summer we will have to lather up!

G'day, mates!