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kinder


an abbreviation of kindergarten: The kids went to kinder. Compare kindergarten, kindie.

Contributor's comments: In South Australia the word "kindy" is used instead of kinder.

Contributor's comments: Also used in Tas.

Contributor's comments: [Riverina informant] Also used in NSW.

Contributor's comments: Compare 'kindy', used in south-east Queensland (and elsewhere?)

Contributor's comments: [Melbourne informant] This is one of the things I hate most about Victorian regionalisms. Back in Qld, it is invariably called kindy. Kinder sounds clumsy and awkward.

Contributor's comments: [Sydney informant] Also used in NSW.

Contributor's comments: This was certainly used in WA too, when kindergartens still existed.

Contributor's comments: Used in Tasmania.

Contributor's comments: [Perth informant] [Kindergarten is] often abbreviated to Kindy, or Kinder.

Contributor's comments: Growing up in NSW, it was always 'kindy'. I never heard 'kinder' before I moved to Victoria.

Contributor's comments: "Kindy" is used throughout Queensland, so far as I know.

Contributor's comments: I went to Kinder as a four year old, the year before I went to school. First class of school was called Prep in Victoria.

Contributor's comments: No, it was always "kindy" when I was growing up in WA in the 1970s.