A "port" is indeed the one time term of preference for a semi rigid container for carrying stuff in when you were going somwhere.
Seeing it is mostly too hot to wear a suit in Queensland, the native residents here have ver little use for a case for containing such things.
"Port" is in fact a shortening of a much longer word that escapes me at the moment.
[QUOTE I wonder what the poms think about our bastardisation of 'their' language?"[/QUOTE]
Who cares:D they probaly don't...... the fact is english as spoken in australia is probaly closer to the real thing than that spoken in many parts of the UK.
I have no problem with American culture, American television & even American sport........In America thats fine..... but I'd like to see a bit less of it here.......What realy annoys me is that our media exectutives are so unemaginative, short sighted and lazy...... oH tight too.
That they would rather recycle overseas content and styles rather than support local material and styles.
A clasic example is " Myth Busters"......an Australian idea, produced by an Australian company, but the Australian executives wouldn't support it.
It gets so bad some nights that it is imposible to find a localy produced programe in prime time except for the news.
Don't get me started on the narrowness of the style of content thats another thing all together.
cheers