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That's a strange one, SteveA … are you sure you didn't just mishear her?

SteveA6000 Was your friend from South Africa.
In Jo'Burg, 'just now' means ' in a little while; very soon.

Cerasus - very interesting! That's the something new I've learned today.

Similarly: “I’ll do it now in a minute.” A Welsh thing, I think.

I like that one, cloverjo!

Hi!
In County Durham, in my youth, "just now" meant "a short time in the future".
At school, I had a Scottish French Teacher (!) and she would set our work task and say, "Do that just now" meaning "immediately" then she would shout at us because the whole class sat there doing nothing.

Hi pedagogue
You've reminded me. I, a Devon lad, was taught French by a diminutive Glaswegian lady called Miss Hamilton. Us Devon lads couldn't understand her when she was supposedly speaking English!

jigjag . .

Thank you . .

Yes from from the antipodean 'land down under'

Cleverjo

Yes but it is South Wales. Grammar is better in North Wales.

Hannah

Thank you.

We were talking earlier in this thread about the annoying use of abbreviations in speech. Could you enlighten us as to why some Australians refer to the magnificent Melbourne Cricket Ground as "G"?

Does it stand for Ground and if so, how do they distinguish it from the Sydney Cricket Ground.