Catherin Kittler
Catherin Kittler voted up Didge Doo's answer
Why do Americans call rugby, football and call the real football soccer?

I think Americans probably call "American football" football; rugby would be rugby.

We did the same thing in Oz until just a few years ago. Rugby League was "football", Rugby Union was "Rugby" and Football was "Soccer". We've got ourselves aligned with the rest of the planet now.

Catherin Kittler
Catherin Kittler voted up Didge Doo's answer
How big does a rock formation have to be until its called a mountain?

There's an interesting twist to this.

The Australian bureaucracy has set the guidelines for mountains at about 300 metres (I think it stemmed from the pre-metric period when the minimum height was 1,000 feet so that's not quite accurate.)

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Catherin Kittler
Catherin Kittler voted up Rooster Cogburn's answer
How big does a rock formation have to be until its called a mountain?

From what I read, it doesn't have to do with the size but it's called a mountain by local usage. A mound of rocks 300 feet tall could be called a mountain by the people who live around it. So there really isn't any limit on size or amount to call them mountains.