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thebyrchentwigges:
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question to native english speakers: Is it just me or the australian/new zealand accent sounds A LOT like the general british?
Visiting the US recently, my NZ partner was asked if he was British all the time. That said, there is a lot of accent variation down under. You can hear globalized cultivated accents - HKB’S voice is a good example. Then there’s stronger Kiwi/Aussie/bogan speech patterns.
You can tell Australian accents because every single vowel is every single vowel. “No” is pronouced “naeiou.” NZ accents, every single vowel is pronounced like the short “i”. (“No” is pronounced “nih”.) British accents, the vowels are all different and all flat. (“No” is pronounced “nuh”.) American accents, the vowels are all different and all spiky. (Whence the slow-mo “noooooo”!)
thebyrchentwigges:
gigarance:
question to native english speakers: Is it just me or the australian/new zealand accent sounds A LOT like the general british?
Visiting the US recently, my NZ partner was asked if he was British all the time. That said, there is a lot of accent variation down under. You can hear globalized cultivated accents - HKB’S voice is a good example. Then there’s stronger Kiwi/Aussie/bogan speech patterns.
You can tell Australian accents because every single vowel is every single vowel. “No” is pronouced “naeiou.” NZ accents, every single vowel is pronounced like the short “i”. (“No” is pronounced “nih”.) British accents, the vowels are all different and all flat. (“No” is pronounced “nuh”.) American accents, the vowels are all different and all spiky. (Whence the slow-mo “noooooo”!)
