Social Science Australian dialects

[Engimal v3]

I love this sort of stuff. Here's my inputs as a Tasmanian with what would probably be described as a broad accent:

Salary/celery merger

Definitely don't do this.

L-vocalisation

Not sure about pool/pull but I do say "milk" like "miwk".

Trap/bath split

Trap and bath for me have very different 'a' sounds (trap vs bARth)

Oo

Yes, this shit is weird. Never heard anyone do this except a kid in primary school who moved to Tassie from Brisbane.

Diphthongs

Never fear, the beer is near. A Western Australian would have three more syllables in this sentence than most t'othersiders would, because words like 'fear' are pronounced with jaw movement (fee-ah), whereas over east they keep their jaw in place.

Interesting one. I definitely say 'fear' as opposed to 'fee-ah'.

 

[Thegibbsgamble]

I work with a lot of people from other countries ie born over there and have come here as adults. I actually have been mocked for my Aussie accent. True story.

Same here maate

 

[The Speaker]

I love this sort of stuff. Here's my inputs as a Tasmanian with what would probably be described as a broad accent:

Is there anything you've noticed about Tasmanians that they say differently to mainlanders?

Trap and bath for me have very different 'a' sounds (trap vs bARth)

Yes, the reason it's called that is because many, many years ago, both were pronounced the same. Over time they split, but the direction of the split for other words is different in different accents, eg. South Australians use the 'bath' sound for words like graph and advantage, whereas most Victorians use the 'trap' sound.

 

[GreyCrow]

Is there anything you've noticed about Tasmanians that they say differently to mainlanders?



Yes, the reason it's called that is because many, many years ago, both were pronounced the same. Over time they split, but the direction of the split for other words is different in different accents, eg. South Australians use the 'bath' sound for words like graph and advantage, whereas most Victorians use the 'trap' sound.

Carstle and Casselmaine are the 2 that spring to mind

South Aussies will say Carstlemaine

 

[NSWCROW]

Charnce
Grarnt
swimming pull

 

[Engimal v3]

Is there anything you've noticed about Tasmanians that they say differently to mainlanders?

Sort of, but my interaction with mainlanders is mostly very urban. As in, the differences are probably just rural and urban dialects, I'd probably find the same in Echuca even if Melbourne is different.

Beer sizes are different though, with few mainlanders knowing what a "10 ounce" is.

 

[Andre]

Castle
Class
Graph

These are the three words for me that determine if you speak proper English, or like a (lower class) American. It's not Cas-sell, Cl-ass or Graf you bogans.

 

[Admiral Byng]

WA accent seems a bit closer to middle British, possibly because we have so poms over here. Slightly less bogan than QLD or NSW.

There seems to be a definite northern QLD accent too. They say "orf" instead of "off". As in "**** Orf"

 

[Thegibbsgamble]

Eastern staters don't only have a unique accent. They also have a different (lesser) mentality

I'm talking 8os kids and onwards

 

[Papa G]

One I've noticed when watching NRL is the pronunciation of field. People like Phil Gould and Peter Sterling pronounce it Feeyuld.

 

[Tarkyn_24]

My accent changes depending on where I am and who I’m talking to , but it’s closest to a Cultivated Aussie accent . Like many West Aussies, I tend towards the supposedly SA variants ie Dahnce , Chahance , Advahntage etc

The ****?

I grew up in Perth and I do not know of one single person that pronounces any of those words like that.

Where the **** did you live?

 

[MWPP]

The ****?

I grew up in Perth and I do not know of one single person that pronounces any of those words like that.

Where the **** did you live?

And yet you liked the post about it being closer to Middle English
I have never lived in SA but perhaps my accent is more similar to SA than WA
I think WA is more similar to SA than it is to Vic , NSW , Queensland or Tas though

 

[GreyCrow]

And yet you liked the post about it being closer to Middle English
I have never lived in SA but perhaps my accent is more similar to SA than WA
I think WA is more similar to SA than it is to Vic , NSW , Queensland or Tas though

How do you say Derby and Albany

 

[MWPP]

How do you say Derby and Albany

I say Derby the WA way
Derrrby not Darrrby
(Anyone who’s from WA and doesn’t say it that way should be shot!)

I didn’t even know that there was more than one way of saying Albany
So I guess I say that the WA way too .....

 

[Tarkyn_24]

How do you say Derby and Albany

Is there a second way to say Albany?

Al-ban-ee?

 

[Eagle Wrath]

Bad joke I know.

Australian Darleks

 

[Tarkyn_24]

And yet you liked the post about it being closer to Middle English
I have never lived in SA but perhaps my accent is more similar to SA than WA
I think WA is more similar to SA than it is to Vic , NSW , Queensland or Tas though

The like was in relation to the second paragraph about Queenslanders and “orf.” Acknowledgement of something that I had also noticed.

 

[GreyCrow]

Is there a second way to say Albany?

Al-ban-ee?

Awlbany

 

[Tarkyn_24]

Awlbany

Bizarre.

Can’t think of anyone I’ve heard pronounce it like that.

Maybe someone with an American accent might pronounce it that way? Or potentially someone accustomed to saying Albury?

 

[MWPP]

Awlbany

Bizarre.

Can’t think of anyone I’ve heard pronounce it like that.

Maybe someone with an American accent might pronounce it that way? Or potentially someone accustomed to saying Albury?

I wonder if people who say awl-bany also say awl-bino .....
I say Al -bum
But is Awl-bum a variant haha ?

 

[GreyCrow]

I wonder if people who say awl-bany also say awl-bino .....
I say Al -bum
But is Awl-bum a variant haha ?

No just every now and then I'd hear it at a family discussion. I think its more Orlbany and not Owlbany

 

[tandino]

Nature strip
Milk bar

GTFO

And a proper sized pint of beer, damn it.

 

[raskolnikov]

When I was teaching teaching in Taiwan I used log and frog as examples of words that rhyme. My Chinese teacher aide said to me afterwards, "Those words don't rhyme". I said, "Of course they do". She said, "Not in American English. In American English it's log and frawg".

 

[Tbonefreo]

Bug-guh.

Bugg-errh.

this chiliean chick was giving it to me on my pronounciation of bugger

 

[Catfish Alley]

I nearly always get mistaken for English. I don't have that broad accent at all and now that I rarely hear other Aussies it stands out so much - even if I'm just on the phone to family. I've got some weird Aussie/Canuck hybrid thing going on now where even when back home I get asked where I'm from.

I used to do a lot of big presentations on stage. I had to reel in my accent a little and it stuck. Mainly it's the pronunciation of 'R's'. So, I'd say Vancouver how it's spelled for example. Most Australian's say something like Vancouvah.