OT: City Names

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Sat Apr 17 00:31:41 1999

On Sat, 17 Apr 1999, Geoff Roberts wrote:

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> Hmm, only partly right at best. Strine is simply english, Australian
> accented, with a bit of rhyming slang and a more pronounced drawl. (Paul
> Hogan in Crocodile Dundee is about as bad as it gets)
> Generally associated with lower/working class/poorly educated types. Rough
> bushies and so forth. Cockney would be a rough British equivalent.
> Most moderately well educated Aussies speak fairly classical english, in the
> British style and spelling useage, just with a different accent. (For
> instance, I write virtually in the same style I speak.)
>
> > He allowed as how folks in the east and west have difficulty in
> communicating :)
>
> Gross exaggeration if not downright untrue. Just a few local words and
> useages. Some Queenslanders tend to put "ay" at the end of every sentence -
> Territorian tend to use "but", Victorians say "castle" with a short "a" as
> in "fat" while New South Walers say it as an "ar" as "car". For practical
> purposes, there is no significant difference in speech between someone from
> Perth and someone from Brisbane assuming similar education levels etc.
> Compared to the differences between say, Cornish accents and Yorkshire
> accents in England, any differences here don't exist. If you want to know
> where someone is from, you usually have to ask.
>
> New Zealanders have an accent, (to us anyway) and the way they say certain
> words is a dead giveaway.
> (Fish and chips in Kiwi would be Fush and chups with the u as in "up")
> This accent becomes more pronounced the further south you go. But it
> doesn't render them incomprehensible, it's just a little different.
>
> Cheers
>
> Geoff Roberts
 
Glad to be straightened out, Jeff. But even some of you educated chaps
can be difficult for Yank ears to understand :)

                                                 - don
Received on Sat Apr 17 1999 - 00:31:41 BST