Accent - Why?

[Tom Shines]

South Australians from experience also pronounce dance and chance with a less-nasal a (ie "darnce").

 

[langpark]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Australia

That was a fascinating read, thanks for posting it! Never knew anything like that ever existed!

 

[AlwaysGreen]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Fbt9QiLWWc

old australian accent from 6.30 in this clip

Thanks for that, very interesting stuff.

 

[Brutus]

Certainly noticed the 'castle' pronunciation straight away when I moved to Victoria. In regional Victoria I've noticed they pronounce many 'e' sounds as 'a' sounds - many say "I'm going to *Mal-bourne*", or "I'm feeling *wal*" (rhyming with 'Mal'), or "I need some *halp*". Stupid Victorians.

Maybe I'm crazy (distinct possibility), but I've noticed some Sydneysiders pronounce 'beer' as if it's nearly two syllables: "be-ar"??

That's not just a regional Victoria thing. It's mainstream city thing too. Kiwis swap the 'a' for the 'e' too.

It's easy to pick a Victorian for this very reason (a and e swap). Many 'a' sounds are pronouced 'e' as well.




Was Morrie Field from Sydney - a classic "Be yahh" man.

 

[IanG]

Then there is the blended ones that people who have immigrated have. Like one of my Year 11-12 teachers at High School. It was mainly Australian but it was when she said certain words that you could tell that she came from Scotland orginally. If only her name was Mrs Robinson

 

[Poul]

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Maybe I'm crazy (distinct possibility), but I've noticed some Sydneysiders pronounce 'beer' as if it's nearly two syllables: "be-ar"??

Not sure about Sydneysiders, but I have noticed this with West Australians (or should that be Western Australians ;-) ) who make the amber brew bisyllabic.

 

[Angry_eel]

Don't know about others but I can pick up different Indian accents. From what I can hear, Indians tend to have the accents the same as the tone of the language they grew up with. e.g. South Indians can rarely say 'three' with a th instead saying it with a soft t. Bengalis can't differentiate between v, w and b and most fresh Indian Bengalis and Bangladeshis will say "balue" instead of value. Most other Indians wont be able to differentiate v and w since most of these languages have 'va' sound but no W(oua?) sound. I had to be taught to say Ourren(Warren) instead of vorren which I was saying when I immigrated to Australia.

 

[woodyk2]

My exs daughter lived in Guilford/Sth Granville and she has a DEFINATE fooly sik accent if you know what i mean. Her cousin who is a dead ringer for ginger megs has a DEFINATE middle eastern accent.Both are white anglo/saxon but have a definate middle eastern accent.

 

[redvscotty]

I work in a call centre and we service most of the country.

You can definately tell the Victorians and Queerslanders apart from the rest, however each state has their fair share of bogans. You can tell the QLD bogans from the Vic bogans and those 2 are by far the most distinguisable.

I can't pick a WA accent, only way I know is because they ring up and say good morning and it's like 1 o clock here.

The young teens to 20s age bracket is possibly the worst one for me. We get travel companies and clothes/fashion shops and the thing that pisses me off the most is when they say 'How are yew?'

Not You.

Yewwww.

Generally the pitch creeps up at the end of the yew. This is definately a reflection on the way the yank culture is creeping into our society. Also the use of z where there should be an s, but thats a whole other topic.

 

[AlwaysGreen]

Also the use of z where there should be an s, but thats a whole other topic.

Pronoucing Z Zee instead of Zed really sticks in my craw.

 

[Tonearm Terrorwrist]

There is no accent world wide worse than a South African one.

 

[Twizzle]

There is no accent world wide worse than a South African one.

dunno,

New York accent does it for me, its an abomination of the English language

 

[Angry_eel]

I quite like the New York Italian actually.

 

[Brutus]

I work in a call centre and we service most of the country.

You can definately tell the Victorians and Queerslanders apart from the rest, however each state has their fair share of bogans. You can tell the QLD bogans from the Vic bogans and those 2 are by far the most distinguisable.

I can't pick a WA accent, only way I know is because they ring up and say good morning and it's like 1 o clock here.

The young teens to 20s age bracket is possibly the worst one for me. We get travel companies and clothes/fashion shops and the thing that pisses me off the most is when they say 'How are yew?'

Not You.

Yewwww.

Generally the pitch creeps up at the end of the yew. This is definately a reflection on the way the yank culture is creeping into our society. Also the use of z where there should be an s, but thats a whole other topic.

This is the Aussie accent that sticks out more than any other.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2009-08-29/interview-jared-crouch/1409276

Listen to the way he pronounces words like 'will' and 'also' and 'field'

Whether it's then bogan version, middle class or upper class version - they all do it. Julia Gillard has the bogan adelaide accent and she does exactly the same.

I agree that a Perth accent is a difficult one to detect. So is Tasmania funnily enough.

I reckon it goes

1.Adelaide
2. 'Malbourne'
3. Brisbane

In terms of capital city accent detection.

 

[manly40gimps0]

Mate I reckon I can pick somebody from the Hunter region if I listen to them long enough.

The way they words like so and go in a quickish type way. Johns Brothers, the Chief do this. It's ever so subtle.

And they always end a sentence with saying "and that"

 

[macavity]

There is no accent world wide worse than a South African one.

Tie between saffer and indian...

 

[ozbash]

South Australians from experience also pronounce dance and chance with a less-nasal a (ie "darnce").

they pronounce it correctly.

 

[Brutus]

One of the arvo newsreaders Jennifer King is from Adelaide. She has to be. Typical SA accent.

I'll bet my nut sack on it.

 

[little_aza]

There is no accent world wide worse than a South African one.

Saaarth Effrican...it's such a bastard accent!

 

[IanG]

I once heard an Irish comedian (Can't remember his name but he did all those Smoke Free Pubs and Clubs ads) descibe the New Zealand accent. Saying it was an Australian accent with a speech impediment