When I moved to Canada I had to teach myself to say “flip flops” and not thongs 
. You get very weird looks if you say thongs.
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I can imagine it could be perplexing to Canadians 
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Yeah. “You’re looking for your what??” 
But to be fair, a lot of things I said confused them.
Jumper, bikkies, Maccas, trolly, how ya goin’?
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Ok, bikkies… I can understand but the rest of them… Seriously?
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Hhahah choccies… omg LOLLIES.
I asked a girl at a stadium for lollies and she looked at me as if I had two heads.
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Shut the front door! Really? …so many things I never realised were Aussie slang
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Crazy
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Yeah. It’s candy there lol.
My boyfriend was like “lolly…pop?”
Servo
Bottle-O
Rocked up
Chucked a sickie
Cracked the shits…
I’d say things at work all the time and the others would be like “In English?” 
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Oh another one… I asked my boyfriend for choc chip cookies.
He goes… “you mean chocolate chip?”
Why waste the syllables?
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But but but these are all just standard things!
As if you need to say the whole word: chocolate 
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Yeah I’ve noticed us Aussies like to shorten everything
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Straya being the prime example
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Defo
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I still say “ceebs” instead of actually saying “cbf” because saying the letters takes too long
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Standard to us
There are a lot of differences considering it’s the same language lol.
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I’m sure people must think we’ve butchered it, but really we’ve just made it easier by shortening everything
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Exactly we’re doing everyone a favour
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Arvo 
Rubber is another one where they’ll look at you weird lol. Say eraser 
or they might think you mean something else.
They also don’t say capsicum. They say peppers. The girl at Subway was so confused 
They don’t say ute or doona.
Lol my boyfriend and I discover something that I say differently nearly every day (and we’ve been together over 3 years).
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What about coriander? I only found out this year it’s also called cilantro lol
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Just showed my boyfriend a bunch of cilantro/coriander. “That’s cilantro but the seeds are coriander seeds.”