Society & Culture Word pronounciations around Australia

[Gough]

And lo! Their accents are the same as ours.

There's some footage about of Woodfull introducing the Australian touring team of 1934, and to my ear their accents are slightly different. More rounded vowels, and their words are more clipped.

 

[dales.girl38]

I never had a problem talking to people in nursing homes. They sound the same - just older.

This. Reading their handwriting, however, presents a problem.

 

[Bomberboyokay]

 

[The Speaker]

Finding videos of Australians using the cultivated variation (ala the ABC newsreaders) doesn't actually help your cause. It's well known that there have historically been three groups of Australian accents (broad, standard and cultivated), and that over time the two outer accents have been increasingly displaced by the already common standard accent. All three are still distinctly Australian.

 

[JD11]

I taught at a tutorial at Melbourne university last semester, the salary/celery accent is out of control in our inner-urban youth. The female students in particular, they would tell me how they lived in 'Fehtzroy', 'Bruhnsweck', 'Culltuhn'.

It's quite a grating accent to listen to - not that it sounds harsh, but it drips with prentense. The young males tended to over-compensate their consonants as opposed to elongating the vowel sounds, as the girls did.

 

[Righteo]

Are there seriously people who say "cassil"? I can accept all other differences, that's just inexcusable though.

 

[JD11]

Another bone I have is people who say 'haytch'. It's 'aytch'.

 

[hawk 77]

is it nice or nice?

 

[Papa G]

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is it nice or nice?

 

[Rankine2Rachele]

Another bone I have is people who say 'haytch'. It's 'aytch'.

Yep. My husband does that. Like fingernails down the blackboard.

 

[MrsEddieBetts]

My mum and my aunt can't say cutlery. They say something that sounds like cuttle-ree. Does my ******* head in.

 

[Big Sauce 21]

The redneck in me comes out when I try and say Three...

freeeeee

 

[GreyPower]

My parents - born in 1940s - say mean-you for menu, instead of men-you.

 

[04 Durif]

Also , Scallop wtf....isn't that like a fish ??

It's a FRITTER.

Dippy Dogs in SA
Dagwood dog in NSW.

That's a bag trolley

 

[afl genius]

That's a bag trolley

Never heard that in my life. Hand trolley for the win

 

[NSWCROW]

That's a bag trolley

Never heard that in my life. Hand trolley for the win

 

[04 Durif]

People who say brocci-lie are the worst kind of people.

They are. It makes it difficult at times for me to respect my wife

 

[Tbonefreo]

Tuna is a funny one. I say choona but my mate says toona. He says stoopid.

Now that i think of it, most words with tu in it makes a chew sound.

My missus cant say ketchup. She says catchup

 

[The Speaker]

Tuna is a funny one. I say choona but my mate says toona. He says stoopid.

Is he American?

 

[BALKAN]

It's FRITZ , not DEVON.
It's a SACK-TRUCK , not a TROLLEY-JACK.
.

Dippy Dogs in SA
Dagwood dog in NSW.

Where the bloody echidna are you from???????

 

[Tbonefreo]

Is he American?

Nah just a peanut

 

[SugarShane]

My mum and my aunt can't say cutlery. They say something that sounds like cuttle-ree. Does my ******* head in.

Oldies have some interesting pronunciations. My mother in law, and a few other oldies I've heard, say things like "watering" weird. Like when she's been watering the garden, she'll say she's done the "wart-ring," instead of "war-ter-ing." That sort of shortening spreads to a few other words too, none of which I can think of though, unfortunately.

 

[The King!]

Another bone I have is people who say 'haytch'. It's 'aytch'.

Amen

It grinds my bloody gears as much as BAS statements and TFN numbers

 

[Gough]

Laygo. What?

 

[MrsEddieBetts]

Aks instead of ask. * off.