American vs Australian pronunciation

[Stuey]

Originally Posted by wintermute

I'm glad you cleared that Up Stuey!!! I had no idea what SY was on about!! I was thinking he was possibly talkiing about buoy's ie the things in the harbour you tie boats to!! .

Tony.

He was. Mine was a weak joke that fell flat...

[wintermute]

Originally Posted by Stuey

He was. Mine was a weak joke that fell flat...

Not flat at all Stuey Quite a witty response actually now I know that I'm even thicker than I first thought

Tony.

[Pano]

Funny! There are parts of Carolina and Virginia that do that, too.
"Wooshing Well" is one of my favs.

[Moondog55]

Don't you mean across the duutch.

[unclejed613]

in the US, you have "sub-dialects", for instance when one thinks of a "New England" accent, the typical "Ya can't pahk theah" bostonian accent comes to mind, but if you go further north into Maine, you might hear something like "ya can't get thayuh from he-yuh"...

(translations, "you can't park there", and "you can't get there from here")

[speaker]

Originally Posted by SY

Depends on what part of America- our accents are quite variable. Where I grew up (the Chesapeake Bay), it's "boy' un see." In California, I more often heard boo' yun see.

I grew up in Cali too & around boats. Channel markers were boo-eee's, flotation devices provided "boy' un see". (& David Bowie was David Bowie, Bowie knife could be that or Boo-eee knife too.)

[speaker]

Originally Posted by unclejed613

in the US, you have "sub-dialects", for instance when one thinks of a "New England" accent, the typical "Ya can't pahk theah" bostonian accent comes to mind, but if you go further north into Maine, you might hear something like "ya can't get thayuh from he-yuh"...

(translations, "you can't park there", and "you can't get there from here")

I'm a MAsshole now & you almost never hear the classic "aaaaaahhhh" around Boston. You need to get up to Billerica / Tewksbury / Chelmsford or JP & the the 'berry' to still hear it often. We are becoming anywhere USA and losing the lilt unfortunately.

[Pano]

Originally Posted by unclejed613

"ya can't get thayuh from he-yuh"...

Bert and I? http://www.bertandi.net/

[unclejed613]

Originally Posted by panomaniac

Bert and I? http://www.bertandi.net/

actually Moosehead Lake..... there was a town there called Kokajo, population 3......

[Key]

Originally Posted by wintermute

On differences between American pronunciation vs Australian, I'd say the first that comes to mind is MOM vs MUM and Zee vs Zed (for the letter Z)

This one drives me nuts as an American. I mean I am fine with you calling it Zed and all but if you are going to sing the alphabet to the tune of "Twinkle Twinkle" then the last line should freakin rhyme! Haha it's like hitting an off note for the end of a song - it just drives me nuts.

I actually think that the majority of English speaking public pronounces everything wrong by old standards so it really bugs me when grammar Nazis come in quoting dictionaries like language is some static thing that never changes. I think what we call "hillbillies" in America (Appalachian-Americans) actually pronounce and speak old English much closer than the rest of the worlds English speaking population. For instance if you were to have an Appalachian-American read Shakespeare a lot of the words will rhyme where they wouldn't in modern English.

Anyway rambling. I just am into this topic because my direct relatives always seem to change pronunciations to common words. My grandma calls Home Depot "Home Deh Poh" and Basil is pronounced "Bahsihl". And my sister freakin changes the pronunciation to nearly every word she uses in a playful sort of way.