The many questions-not-worth-their-own-thread question thread XXI

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Are there any differences between British accents and Australian accents (the vocal accents you hear when a person speaks, that is)?
 
This is a joke question, right?

I can post a video of an Australian accent, which would give you some idea.

But how many videos could I post of distinct British accents? Hundreds? Thousands?
 
Which British accents sound anything like Australian accents to you? I'm curious.

This strikes me as very strange.

I would grant that some West Country accents sound very vaguely American. But I know of none that sounds vaguely Australian.
 
Some individual British and Australian accents might sound pretty similar, but yeah, there are a lot of distinctions.

To add, the diction is pretty different.

My English accent and my Ozzie accent sound a bit alike, but that's because I can't say anything in my Ozzie accent other than "Crickey!" and "Put the shrimp on the barbie, mate!" and "Fosters: Australian for beer".
 
Working class south English sounds a bit similar to some Australians, to me anyway. I suspect if I had more extensive exposure to either group that would change.
 
A stereotypical Australian sounds slightly like a Cockney with a cold, if that helps.
 
Working class south English covers such a wide variety from Essex, East Anglian (several hundred different ones) Birmingham, Oxford, Estuary English, Kentish, Sussex, Southampton, Dorset, Devon, Cornwall, West Country, and several sorts of Welsh. To name but a few.

Which one sounds Australian?

edit: A cockney with a cold. Hmm. Well maybe. Sort of. Not really, though. I mean, they are both varieties of English, I will grant you that.
 
Working class south English covers such a wide variety from Essex, East Anglian (several hundred different ones) Birmingham, Oxford, Estuary English, Kentish, Sussex, Southampton, Dorset, Devon, Cornwall, West Country, and several sorts of Welsh. To name but a few.

Which one sounds Australian?

Yeah I was going to say. There is so much diversity you really have to be specific.
 
Yeah I was going to say. There is so much diversity you really have to be specific.
Well, being the stereotypical(?) ignorant 'murican, I wasn't even aware there was so much diversity in English accents in the UK. :blush:
 
Well, being the stereotypical(?) ignorant 'murican, I wasn't even aware there was so much diversity in English accents in the UK. :blush:

Don't feel bad about it.
I'm quite ignorant of American accents too - so we're good :D
 
There's really only three major ones, Yank, Southern, and Bahston.
 
I know the Southern accent, but i couldn't tell an Alabammy one from a West Virginian or a Texan.
I know the New YAORRRRK that whiny accent, makes me chuckle when I hear that one :D
Ahh yeah teh Boston one, I remember that from The Departed - thats a nice accent. JFK spoke like that iirc....
But then surely, Mr CG - you have Mid Western accent (news reporter) quite plain to the ear when compared to other ones. Californian type of accent mixed in with that Valley Girl - highschool/college girl thing. Then you have Hawii with that laid back hum-drum accent. I also remember an Island off the eastern coast which had a dialect impossible to decipher. You can get that derpy accent from the Amish.

How did I do? Out of 10 :D
 
8/10
Not bad at all really. Mid Western accents aren't plain though, especially upper Mid Western (fark, warshclothe, etc). For truly plain, you have to go to the pacific northwect (seattle and that area).
 
I would consider my own Midwestern accent pretty plain, but it really does vary. Western Midwestern accents (Wisconsin, Minnesota, and the Dakotas) are really a different sort of beast. TV Tropes has a helpful summary.
 
I've never been able to describe any kind of midwestern accent. That's probably because I grew up here. I know mine's a little bit off the 'journalistic news-anchor neutral'.
 
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