Smoko should call it quits, Quit says – Yahoo!7 News
I really don’t understand some of the things that people go on about, such as whether a tea break is called a ‘smoko’. For me, ‘smoko’ means tea break, and, as a non-smoker, it doesn’t make me all of a sudden have the urge to grab a pack of cigarettes. Now calling the break ‘quito’ makes me think of the end of the day… quitting time. Where I work no-one calls a cigarette break, ‘smoko’, its more like, “Mate, are you going out for a smoke.”
Imagine if this got passed as a law that no-one is to use ‘smoko’ to describe a tea break, or a hefty fine will ensue. I wouldn’t be surprised in these worsening times for litigation and general pettiness that something as preposterous as this would be put through.
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