Does 'This sort of misnomer leads Carnegie to suppose that  to the uninitiated no map is so misleading as that of West Australia where lakes are salt-bogs without surface water, springs seldom run, and native `wells' are merely tiny holes in the rock, yielding from 0 to 200 gallons. ' challenge or dispute the premise 'Australia uses words for things that dont make sense to Americans, like guns are called rooty tooty point and shootys.'
This sort of misnomer leads Carnegie to suppose that  to the uninitiated no map is so misleading as that of West Australia where lakes are salt-bogs without surface water, springs seldom run, and native `wells' are merely tiny holes in the rock, yielding from 0 to 200 gallons. ###Australia uses words for things that dont make sense to Americans, like guns are called rooty tooty point and shootys.