In Australia, "transportation" has a specific meaning : the removal of criminals from Britain and their transportation to the penal colonies which became Australia.
Public transport is another matter. Trains, trams, ferries, buses....
And here we are in the middle of a teachers' and community campaign for better funding for public schools. Three of these vans are transporting the message around NSW at the moment. Read more about that here.
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Clever you combining two ways of using the word - well more actually. Jx
ReplyDeleteAnd when we hear "transport," it recalls the one-way sending of people to the camps in WW2 Europe.
ReplyDeleteThanks for this photo and the link. I will read it.
My grandson is lucky to be in an excellent public school in Bondi.
May all the public schools get the funding they need and deserve.
Education is indeed our future. I wish more politicians believed that.
ReplyDeleteGreat post Sally, and thanks for spelling out the difference between transport and transportation. I figured there was one but couldn't find what it was.
ReplyDeleteAnd I'll ditto what EG Wow said: Education is indeed our future. I wish more politicians believed that.