When i went to NYC it was the first time I had been outside Australia and it was definitely odd at first being somewhere where your accent is commonplace. It caused a few issues with Taxi drivers though as they kept thinking my gf and I were saying “28th Street” when our hotel was on “20th street”. We worked out to say “two-zero” in the end and they understood.

It also took me 5 attempts for a guy at the hot dog stand to understand...that I wanted a hot dog. Pretty amusing considering we both speak English. The waitress at Dave&Busters complimented our accents though which was nice, probably just worked out we were foreigners that tipped tbh.

To be fair I have trouble understanding some Australians and accents obviously vary region to region. “Carlton Dry” and “Carlton Draught” forever cause confusion at work which is probably puzzling to any North American reading this.

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Anyway I was watching one of Cuestar’s videos and he made fun of someone using “Draw the short straw” as a rhyme. Comment section erupts.
Does it rhyme to you?

There was a thing called “Accent Tag” that went around on YouTube also, if anyone wants to join in, text or audio is fine. The tag questions are below:

How do you pronounce:

Aunt, Roof, Route, Wash, Oil, Theater, Iron, Salmon, Caramel, Fire, Water, Sure, Data, Ruin, Crayon, New Orleans, Pecan, Both, Again, Probably, Spitting image, Alabama, Lawyer, Coupon, Mayonnaise, Syrup, Pajamas, Caught, Naturally, Aluminium, and Envelope.

Questions:

What is it called when you throw toilet paper on a house?
What is the bug that when you touch it, it curls into a ball?
What is the bubbly carbonated drink called?
What do you call gym shoes?
What do you say to address a group of people?
What do you call the kind of spider (or spider-like creature) that has an oval-shaped body and extremely long legs?
What do you call your grandparents?
What do you call the wheeled contraption in which you carry groceries at the supermarket?
What do you call it when rain falls while the sun is shining?
What is the thing you change the TV channel with?




My answers:



Also a dialect quiz for anyone interested: archive.gameswithwords.org/WhichEnglish/

I got “New Zealandish” before Australian. There wasn’t any questions about six fish and chips though 😒.

What type of accent do you have and is there any accents you have trouble understanding (if any)

What accent is your favourite?

What a pack of drongo's

1. New Zealandish
2. South African
3. Welsh (UK)

I got New Zealandish before Australian.

I reckon we've discussed this before on PW. In London, a taxi driver thought my wife and I were Northerners. I didn't think we were trying too hard to blend in, but due to the Australian accent, we were making an effort to speak a lot clearer.

While there isn't a vast number of regional accents in Anglo-Australians as there is in the US and UK, there is socio-cultural variations, as well as Indigenous. Education and experience/exposure plays a big part. My father speaks with a very clear and articulate General Australian English accent, border lining on a Cultivated Australian English. While my Uncles speak with a Broad Australian English - my grandparents migrated from Europe after WWII - the difference being, my father, the eldest, attended a traditional public high school and finished the then equivalent to VCE, and continued to study throughout his adult life and worked in largely professional fields. My Uncle's attended a trade school, dropped out early and worked largely in manual labor jobs.

Favorite accents. Women with Scottish accents. And I'm partial to the number of British accents.

Feb 7, 2019 11:47:15 GMT NATH45 said:

I got New Zealandish before Australian.

I reckon we've discussed this before on PW. In London, a taxi driver thought my wife and I were Northerners. I didn't think we were trying too hard to blend in, but due to the Australian accent, we were making an effort to speak a lot clearer.

While there isn't a vast number of regional accents in Anglo-Australians as there is in the US and UK, there is socio-cultural variations, as well as Indigenous. Education and experience/exposure plays a big part. My father speaks with a very clear and articulate General Australian English accent, border lining on a Cultivated Australian English. While my Uncles speak with a Broad Australian English - my grandparents migrated from Europe after WWII - the difference being, my father, the eldest, attended a traditional public high school and finished the then equivalent to VCE, and continued to study throughout his adult life and worked in largely professional fields. My Uncle's attended a trade school, dropped out early and worked largely in manual labor jobs.

Favorite accents. Women with Scottish accents. And I'm partial to the number of British accents.

I get asked a lot “where I’m from” and I just say “Australia” as apparently I have a bit of a Scottish accent 🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️. I guess it’s because I don’t sound like the typical bogans that come into my work and my name is Scottish so they just assume.

Yeah you did. it’s pretty similar to this thread, but this is more about accents than the other one. (Plus I couldn’t remember what I called it 😂)
pwcom.proboards.com/thread/1226/english-speak

Wow this got me pegged.

1. Canadian
2. American
3. Black American/Ebonics

Pretty cool quiz.

Our top three guesses for your English dialect:
1. Welsh (UK)
2. Scottish (UK)
3. English (England)

That's funny. I'm Welsh and Scottish before English. Wonder if that's the case for any other Northern English folk.

1. American (Standard)
2. US Black Vernacular / Ebonics
3. Canadian

I guess that's pretty spot on , being so north in the states probably lends myself to a bit of Canadian accent.

My favorite accents , a true southern belle accent from the US. Australian accents as a vague way can be good too.

Says I"m canadian.

Wish it would have a few specific sub groups, different areas of the country speak a bit differently from each other

1. New Zealandish
2. English (England)
3. Welsh (UK)

Does Australian even show up? Interesting that we all got New Zealandish instead. I'm not surprised by the other two as my parents were born in England so I take after their speech quite a bit.

Spanish and Italian accents are the hottest.

Feb 7, 2019 22:40:24 GMT @admin said:

1. New Zealandish
2. English (England)
3. Welsh (UK)

Does Australian even show up? Interesting that we all got New Zealandish instead. I'm not surprised by the other two as my parents were born in England so I take after their speech quite a bit.

Spanish and Italian accents are the hottest.

Funnily the South Island accent is different to the traditional, more comical Kiwi accent due to Scottish ancestry.

Feb 7, 2019 23:36:00 GMT NATH45 said:

Feb 7, 2019 22:40:24 GMT @admin said:

1. New Zealandish
2. English (England)
3. Welsh (UK)

Does Australian even show up? Interesting that we all got New Zealandish instead. I'm not surprised by the other two as my parents were born in England so I take after their speech quite a bit.

Spanish and Italian accents are the hottest.

Funnily the South Island accent is different to the traditional, more comical Kiwi accent due to Scottish ancestry.

I have always noticed this. 
incy this week has been in Melbourne, Sydney, Christchurch, Napier, Auckland
Christchurch people always talk about being ready in a wee minute which is super weird. 

I am able to speak with no accent at all, I travel a lot and have learnt to speak very clearly, the funny thing is that most countries people will sort of work with your accent to understand you... Except for the USA people on Middle America have no idea what you are saying if it is even a little bit different to a US accent. For example if you pronounce data as Dartar they are completely baffled .. Oh.. You mean Dayta  :suspic:

1. American (Standard)
2. Canadian
3. US Black Vernacular / Ebonics

Boooring.

I work with an Australian, a French Canadian, Indians, and Italians in my field office up here in Boston. I love their accents in that order. The native Bostonians slot in either right behind the French Canadian or right ahead depending on thickness of accent.

iNCY Have you notice (or has anyone else pointed out) any changes in your accent with all the travelling you do?

My wrestling trainer’s voice sounds like he’s trying to put on a bad American accent but his accent is just all over the place with the travelling he has done. Similar thing happened to my sister when she lived in the UK for a few years.

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One thing I don’t understand with American accents in some regions pronouncing “Caramel” as “Carmel” while announciating other words very clearly.

Though as an American pointed out to me, why do Australians say “Tomarto” but “Kebab” is just “K-bab” not “Ke-barb” like they say in the US.

🤯,you are the first person I ever met who like Indian accents... And that includes Indians.

System,sometimes I drift into pigeon English a little, but apart from that I speak the same when travelling as I do at home. Most people guess. Y accent as Canadian overseas, so sorry to our Canadian posters.
My job is constantly talking to people overseas... Not glamorous.

Whaaaaaa?

South African
Canadian
American (Standard)

Australians pronounce the word 'data' as 'dartar'? :lol:

I would be baffled too if you said 'dartar' to me, although I might be able to infer it from context.

I got:

Northern Irish
Irish
Scottish

So pretty accurate.

Feb 8, 2019 18:51:33 GMT Emperor said:

Australians pronounce the word 'data' as 'dartar'? :lol:

I would be baffled too if you said 'dartar' to me, although I might be able to infer it from context.

It's fair to say we've molested the English language.

Last year in London, I caught up with a friend who moved there 12 years ago, she had adopted the accent and vocabulary and while I'm hardly poorly spoken, I felt like an absolute savage speaking with my dirty colonial tongue.

Feb 8, 2019 18:51:33 GMT Emperor said:

Australians pronounce the word 'data' as 'dartar'? :lol:

I would be baffled too if you said 'dartar' to me, although I might be able to infer it from context.

Me rn 😂

What's the other way of saying "Draw the short straw?" that doesn't rhyme?

Feb 9, 2019 3:57:50 GMT RagnarokMike said:

What's the other way of saying "Draw the short straw?" that doesn't rhyme?

I’m an idiot, he was saying that “store” and “straw” don’t rhyme. It does to me but I can see how it doesn’t with a North American accent.
Ignore the poll everyone 😒


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