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On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 21:41:11 GMT, "Yoj"
yodeled: "Kreisleriana" wrote in message .. . On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 07:48:18 +1300, Bev yodeled: Cheryl Perkins wrote: Kreisleriana wrote: The former Mr. T (an Aussie) had people remark to him that it must be cool to live in a country from where you could drive all over Europe. :P I've heard that many people think that Australia and Austria are the same place, which would certainly lead to that kind of confusion! -- Cheryl Even funnier are the people who think that Australia and New Zealand are part of the same country or people who think New Zealand is a part of Holland or Alaska. When we travelled around the US recently few people could pick our accents. They always began by thinking we were English, no, Australian then, nooo, then they gave up Bev "New Zealand: The Canada of Australia" Forget New Zealand (I don't mean really)! That's beyond most of our ken. In fact it was beyond my Aussie Mr. T's ken, too, but I think that was on purpose. :P I don't know it it is because I am so familiar with "down-under" accents that I don't see why most Americans mistake them for English. But I suppose that there are so many English accents that they think that those just might be a couple more. Theresa Actually, the most common Aussie accent bears a definite resemblance to the English Cockney accent. There is also the fact that a large number of Aussies came from England originally, and never lost their English accent. Joy I just think if you live long enough with Australians-- as I did-- the "similarities" fade. Cockney might have been a starting point, but not only was that well over 200 years ago, but there were probably at least as many Irish in the penal colonies, and the first immigrations as there were English. Then people from *everywhere* have poured in, since. Melbourne was probably demographically more Greek and Italian when I was there a few years ago, and they all had Aussie accents. Try telling them they owe it to Mother England. :P Take it from me, they have vowels and diphthongs down there that never appeared in the British Isles. Theresa Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com |
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On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 21:41:11 GMT, "Yoj"
yodeled: "Kreisleriana" wrote in message .. . On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 07:48:18 +1300, Bev yodeled: Cheryl Perkins wrote: Kreisleriana wrote: The former Mr. T (an Aussie) had people remark to him that it must be cool to live in a country from where you could drive all over Europe. :P I've heard that many people think that Australia and Austria are the same place, which would certainly lead to that kind of confusion! -- Cheryl Even funnier are the people who think that Australia and New Zealand are part of the same country or people who think New Zealand is a part of Holland or Alaska. When we travelled around the US recently few people could pick our accents. They always began by thinking we were English, no, Australian then, nooo, then they gave up Bev "New Zealand: The Canada of Australia" Forget New Zealand (I don't mean really)! That's beyond most of our ken. In fact it was beyond my Aussie Mr. T's ken, too, but I think that was on purpose. :P I don't know it it is because I am so familiar with "down-under" accents that I don't see why most Americans mistake them for English. But I suppose that there are so many English accents that they think that those just might be a couple more. Theresa Actually, the most common Aussie accent bears a definite resemblance to the English Cockney accent. There is also the fact that a large number of Aussies came from England originally, and never lost their English accent. Joy I just think if you live long enough with Australians-- as I did-- the "similarities" fade. Cockney might have been a starting point, but not only was that well over 200 years ago, but there were probably at least as many Irish in the penal colonies, and the first immigrations as there were English. Then people from *everywhere* have poured in, since. Melbourne was probably demographically more Greek and Italian when I was there a few years ago, and they all had Aussie accents. Try telling them they owe it to Mother England. :P Take it from me, they have vowels and diphthongs down there that never appeared in the British Isles. Theresa Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com |
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On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 21:41:11 GMT, "Yoj"
yodeled: "Kreisleriana" wrote in message .. . On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 07:48:18 +1300, Bev yodeled: Cheryl Perkins wrote: Kreisleriana wrote: The former Mr. T (an Aussie) had people remark to him that it must be cool to live in a country from where you could drive all over Europe. :P I've heard that many people think that Australia and Austria are the same place, which would certainly lead to that kind of confusion! -- Cheryl Even funnier are the people who think that Australia and New Zealand are part of the same country or people who think New Zealand is a part of Holland or Alaska. When we travelled around the US recently few people could pick our accents. They always began by thinking we were English, no, Australian then, nooo, then they gave up Bev "New Zealand: The Canada of Australia" Forget New Zealand (I don't mean really)! That's beyond most of our ken. In fact it was beyond my Aussie Mr. T's ken, too, but I think that was on purpose. :P I don't know it it is because I am so familiar with "down-under" accents that I don't see why most Americans mistake them for English. But I suppose that there are so many English accents that they think that those just might be a couple more. Theresa Actually, the most common Aussie accent bears a definite resemblance to the English Cockney accent. There is also the fact that a large number of Aussies came from England originally, and never lost their English accent. Joy I just think if you live long enough with Australians-- as I did-- the "similarities" fade. Cockney might have been a starting point, but not only was that well over 200 years ago, but there were probably at least as many Irish in the penal colonies, and the first immigrations as there were English. Then people from *everywhere* have poured in, since. Melbourne was probably demographically more Greek and Italian when I was there a few years ago, and they all had Aussie accents. Try telling them they owe it to Mother England. :P Take it from me, they have vowels and diphthongs down there that never appeared in the British Isles. Theresa Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com |
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"Yoj" wrote in message news:XjVed.9581$around the US recently Actually, the most common Aussie accent bears a definite resemblance to the English Cockney accent. There is also the fact that a large number of Aussies came from England originally, and never lost their English accent. Joy Not so. No Australians I've even met sounded like they were English, and I should know. Only English people sound like they're English. Tweed |
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"Yoj" wrote in message news:XjVed.9581$around the US recently Actually, the most common Aussie accent bears a definite resemblance to the English Cockney accent. There is also the fact that a large number of Aussies came from England originally, and never lost their English accent. Joy Not so. No Australians I've even met sounded like they were English, and I should know. Only English people sound like they're English. Tweed |
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"Yoj" wrote in message news:XjVed.9581$around the US recently Actually, the most common Aussie accent bears a definite resemblance to the English Cockney accent. There is also the fact that a large number of Aussies came from England originally, and never lost their English accent. Joy Not so. No Australians I've even met sounded like they were English, and I should know. Only English people sound like they're English. Tweed |
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"Christina Websell" wrote in
message ... "Yoj" wrote in message news:XjVed.9581$around the US recently Actually, the most common Aussie accent bears a definite resemblance to the English Cockney accent. There is also the fact that a large number of Aussies came from England originally, and never lost their English accent. Joy Not so. No Australians I've even met sounded like they were English, and I should know. Only English people sound like they're English. Tweed One of my dear friends from another newsgroup moved to Oz from England a few decades ago, and considers herself an Australian. Aussies still tell her she sounds like a Pommy. Joy |
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