Servo is a double relic from the days when a petrol station also had a workshop attached where you left your car for *servicing* - before the days when taking your car to the original dealership/car brand became common. The "double" relic is that, at said petrol stations, you would drive your car up to get petrol and someone would come out, fill your car with petrol, clean your windscreen, check your oil and water and tyre pressure (only if you weren't in a mad hurry of course), take your cash and bring you your change before sending you on your way. In other words, they gave you service. I can well remember my mother (and others) grumbling, as the seventies progressed and "self-service" petrol stations took over, that they didn't deserve to be called service stations because you no longer got any bloody service. But by then, "servo" had stuck. Even I - 64 this year - almost never call them petrol stations any more.
Since in aus most "petrol stations" as you call them tend to have at least a nearby fast food place or attached in-house kitchen (for pies, sausage rolls, chiko rolls etc) and also always have some small conveniences (drinks, snacks and lollies, newspaper, ciggies etc) they all get called service stations, hence them all being called a servo.
Doona used to be a brand name but has since become the general word for all brands of duvets/comforters, kinda like ppl often say Kleenex instead of tissue.
Did I get all the words right? Are there any other words I should learn?
- Make sure you give your rellies some prezzies for chrissie.
-veggies.
- warm = stinking hot.
- cool = freezing cold.
- bogan = uncouth, uneducated.
- dingbat = idiot.
He's learning we must stop him
Servo is a double relic from the days when a petrol station also had a workshop attached where you left your car for *servicing* - before the days when taking your car to the original dealership/car brand became common. The "double" relic is that, at said petrol stations, you would drive your car up to get petrol and someone would come out, fill your car with petrol, clean your windscreen, check your oil and water and tyre pressure (only if you weren't in a mad hurry of course), take your cash and bring you your change before sending you on your way. In other words, they gave you service.
I can well remember my mother (and others) grumbling, as the seventies progressed and "self-service" petrol stations took over, that they didn't deserve to be called service stations because you no longer got any bloody service. But by then, "servo" had stuck. Even I - 64 this year - almost never call them petrol stations any more.
Pokies is from "video poker machine". Poking 😂
Since in aus most "petrol stations" as you call them tend to have at least a nearby fast food place or attached in-house kitchen (for pies, sausage rolls, chiko rolls etc) and also always have some small conveniences (drinks, snacks and lollies, newspaper, ciggies etc) they all get called service stations, hence them all being called a servo.
Doona used to be a brand name but has since become the general word for all brands of duvets/comforters, kinda like ppl often say Kleenex instead of tissue.
Poker machine is an alternative name for a slot machine (originally coz to win you needed to have matching cards)
Rego is still slang. But much like all the other shortened words, they are widely accepted as the real word.