You calling the Aussie accent weird?

According to a person who was speaking many years ago
about the English language and its various accents, his
conclusions were.

The American English accent is how English was spoken
when the Pilgrim Fathers went there and it became colonised.

The Australian English accent is how English was spoken
when they started to exile convicts to your land.

The Canadian English accent is slightly different from the
American version because they got a very high proportion
of Scottish Highlanders, they speak with a soft voice.

The Indian version of English, is not so clear because they
have difficulty pronouncing many of the English words
as their own language is so different, they also didn't have
any tutors who cared enough to help them to speak properly.

Mike.
 
Bretrick said:
You Americans, Scots, Irishmans, Englishmans, Canadians, Italians, on and on, have a funny accent.
Strewth, your's is stranger than us Aussies.
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Americans, Scots, Irishmans, Englishmans, Canadians, haven't posted the word or at least I don't remember strewth which is a funny way to say surprised or dismayed being used in a sentence. Strewth being a funny word makes using it a funny written accent.:)
 
fuzzybuddy said:
OK, Bretrick, rate your list of worst English speakers from bottom to top.
The worst- sorry Scotland.
Wales
Ireland
Caribbean Islands
Australia
Southern England
Canada
America
There may be a smidge of bias in this list.
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Fuzzbuddy, it all depends on which Scottish accent you heard!

Many years ago when the telephone system in Britain was run
by the G.P.O. (General Post Office), a Nationalised business, they
paid more to people from Inverness who took a job as a Telephone
Operator, as it was decided that people from that fair city and its
area, spoke the best and easiest to understand English in the British
Isles.

There are varied versions of the language within each country so we
are all correct.

Mike.
 
Born and raised in Tennessee so I know I have a pretty strong accent. Now I have lived in Maryland for some time so people recognize the more Southern twang of an accent I have. I think as outsiders we all look at the other accents as being weird because we are not used to them.
 
Which American accent are you referring to? Some of the mid-east coast islanders speak an English that is almost Elizabethan. Here in the Pacific NorthWET, we speak an amalgamation of all the other US accents. Then we have southern, Scotts Irish, Appalachian, down east, midwestern, CA valley girl, Spanglish, and others.....what's your pleasure?
 
Everybody has a strange accent. LOL :) People in America think each others' accents are strange. There's New York accents, N.J. accents, southern US accents, Boston (New England) accents, etc. And yeah...weird accents abroad too. I recently got heavy into a BBC show Primeval. I actually prefer watching it with the captions on because sometimes I can't understand what they are saying. But on the other hand, some accents are cool and downright sexy. :love:
 
I don't understand lumping all the accents in a particular country into one category. Tell that to Henry Higgens, the fanatic linguist in My Fair Lady. Liverpool? London? That's supposed to be one accent? Let alone Cockney.

Or listen to someone from, say, New England, having a conversation with someone from Georgia. Or someone from New York conversing with someone from Nebraska. I can recognize what some would call an Irish or Scottish accent (and I love them both, why put them on a list as the "worst?") but I bet for people living in Ireland or Scotland, there are dozens of variants.

Is there even an "Aussie" accent? Australia is a big country; there are probably many varieations from one part to another.
 

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