I was just listening to a podcast (Lateral with Tom Scott) which claimed that rather than counting "1 Mississippi, 2 Mississippi's) for seconds, Australians count "1 cattledog, 2 cattledogs".
I've lived here my whole life, including a chunk of it where I was within spitting distance of a cattledog, and I have never heard such a thing.
#australia
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