Re: Television set?
In Oz, it used to be "Television Set" or "TV set".
We understood what was meant when Brits spoke of "the Telly", but it sounded a bit weird.
After a while, simply "the TV " became common, & over many years "the Telly" has drifted into our vocabulory.
Transistor radios were usually called "transistor" sets, then the exceedingly annoying "transistor", then "tranny" ---AAARRRGGGHHH!
When I went to the UK in 1971 on a "working holiday", I thought I knew most of the "Britspeak" terms, like the aforesaid "Telly", "Lorries" for trucks, & "Artics" for semitrailers, but I was taken by surprise by the very common use of "motor" for "car".
All good, I quickly became used to that, then came the event which shook my assurance to its foundations.
One day, a bloke came in to work & said to the Boss:-
"I've got my motor out the front".
I casually glanced out the door expecting to see a Mini or something, only to be confronted with a ginormous "Artic" loaded down to the gunwales with stuff.
I decided then & there, that I would be very cautious in assuming what someone was talking about when they used common terminology in the "Mother Country"!
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