Australian accident/'come with'

storm miss_megan at dingoblue.net.au
Thu Feb 28 10:02:46 UTC 2002



> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Tabouli" <tabouli at u...> wrote:
> The Australian accent has some regional variation, as well, though
> nothing like the regional variation in the UK or US.  <snip> Melburnians
> have been known to sniff that Sydney
> accents are nasal and unmelodious compared with their own, but I
> suspect that sniff owes more than a little to intercity rivalry...
> (storm?  you there, holding up the Sydney side and fighting the good
> fight against Melbourne of the miserable climate?)

storm, finally roars up in her ageing Holdern .....

Sorry Tabouli, the whole Melbourne/Sydney thing leaves me cold. I visited
Melbourne once and though 'I could live here'. Such a shame that I don't.
(Melbourne has a great vegan shoe shop)

re the 'come with' I say that! I thought everyone did though. My family are
ex-South Africa so maybe I inherited it from them.

storm, who has never been able to tell the differences in Australian accents but
says 'plahnt' and oddly enough 'haitch'.






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