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Anonymous, 1 yr 240 days ago

Being an australian... i can tell u

that we dont pronounce our Ts eg. shut up would be shud up or mate is ma e  (like saying eight with out the t)  

 when finishing a sentence we end it like a question like. my head hurts! but instead of sying the end of hurts,  in a low vioce we say it high!

 How are you going? would be how you goin'? etc    

I've always noticed how we have a very lazy tongue, we dont really use it to pronounce words...a speach therapists said to talk like an australian imagine there is a brick sitting on your tongue and you try to talk...

Bldudas  +  494090 Fri, 28 Mar 08 05:27 PM
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“Here are my comments.  The parentheses indicate that something is not part of General American-like dialects or RP, but is found in certain regional dialects..
CAR -- American R's are always pronounced, British R's are not.
In General American vs. RP, yes, (but there are non-rhotic American dialects on the East coast, and rhotic British dialects.)
NO -------- British is /əʊ/, American is /oʊ/
Some British dialects have /o/.  Some American dialects have /o/.  (Some American dialects have /əʊ/.)
NOT ------ British is /ɒ/, American is /ɑ/
Actually in about 40% of the country "not" can have /ɒ/ or /ɑ/ used interchangeably.
NOT -- British final T's are released, American final T's are not.
yeah
LAW ----- In BrE it's /o/, in AmE it's either /ɒ/ or /ɑ/
Actually I belive RP has /O:/ rather than /o/.  (In the Boston Brahmin accent it can also be /O:/)
CLASS --- Some vowels that are /ɑ/ in BrE, in AmE are /æ/
Some people in the West can shift /æ/ to /a/.  (Some dialects in Boston have a similar trap-bath split.)
BETTY --- In BrE there are no tapped T's, in AmE there are.
From what I've heard, occasionally BrE speakers use tapped t's.
NOW ----- In BrE it's more like /ɑʊ/, in AmE it's more like /æʊ/
Actually General American has /aʊ/.  Some regional dialects have /æʊ/.”
 

I agree with you. Where I am from  we have /əʊ/ and LAW sounds to me as /ɔ/ though.

From what I heard from Austrailians, they sound sort of like a mix of British accents. I don't know. Maybe it is me.  
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Kooyeen  +  494103 Fri, 28 Mar 08 06:25 PM
Yeah, but I was only considering two "general varieties" with their transcriptions, the ones you find in dictionaries. If you start to consider all the varieties, you'll never stop. I just noticed a mistake...
Anonymous
“NOW ----- In BrE it's more like /ɑʊ/, in AmE it's more like /æʊ/”

...I meant to write that in BrE it's more like /aʊ/.
There sure are accents where it's different. But it's not surprising... in the UK there are so many weird accents that some people don't even seem to be speaking English, lol.
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Zerox  +  494120 Fri, 28 Mar 08 07:38 PM
My favourite accent has always been Geordie. Not that I would understand a bit of it, though.

Broonsalroond! 
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