The talented ladies at Do You Speaka My Language have unearthed a crisis in Australian spelling.
Apparently there are two possible spellings for the Australian colloquial term for McDonald's Family Restaurants: "Maccas" and "Macker's". I always thought it was "Maccas" but perhaps you have a different view.
Vote for your preferred spelling here in the Do you speaka my language? online poll (poll is in the blog sidebar and is open until 9pm Sat 21 July).
8 comments:
Not that we get to frequent there to dine but our preferred spelling is also Maccas! Rgds, TeamSAK
I surveyed two year 4 girls about this today and got: Maca's x 2. It's the cyber-generation...cut all irrelevant letters to make for faster SMS-ing. Although for greater efficiency they'll have to drop the apostrophe!
C U @ macas 4 lnch?
Go teh CYBR gen 4 m8kg r wrdz smplr (?). iz hol nu langwidg 2 lrn.
bein a lingwst I am xprt in LOL an txt. thesis 2 fol ;-)
Wha? Anyway - I would have said it was Maccas? Is there any prize for the picking the one with the most votes. Like you M, I would ask for a trip to the Melbourne Writer's Festiival and a week of free childcare to also enble me to go.
i think it should be macca's!
Maccas - no question - has never entered my head that there could even be an alternative !
Im with the last comment - no alternative - maccas all the way!
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