Also 'push chair" in England.

Regards

Dudley Horscroft
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> Mal Rowe wrote:

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>> I'm struck by the baby 'pusher' at left - I was probably paraded around in something similar around that period.

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> Another point of difference between NZ and Australian English.

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> What I knew as a "pusher" when growing up in Melbourne is a "push-chair" in New Zealand.

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> My children rode in a push-chair when little; we never had a pram. I think they were mostly relics by the 1990s. Nor did we spend

> hundreds of dollars buying, yes, one of those huge "buggies" the Joneses started barging their kids about in during the 1990s and

> still do today. They need an SUV to put them in (the buggies not the children!).

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> david mcloughlin, Wellington no more

> "Holy writ requires unholy scrutiny."

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