Mrs Nicole Coulter? and Australia through US eyes

[Anne <urbana@charter.net>]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Tabouli" <tabouli at u...> 
wrote:
> So, while I'm taking one of my favorite hobby horses (Anglophone 
Contrasts, out of Curiosity by Midnight Message) out for a canter, 
what image *do* people in the USA have of Australia, if any?  Would 
you recognise an Australian accent?
> 
> Tabouli.
> 

I certainly would. One of mother's first cousins married a woman from 
Perth (met her there during WWII), so I was exposed to Aunt Una's 
Aussie accent thousands of times during my childhood. I've always 
thought it was a fairly strong accent, so I've been surprised that 
people like Kidman and Mel Gibson can turn it off so they can 
sound "American". Of course there are probably at least 50 
different "American accents" - Louisiana (where I grew up) has at 
least 3 different accents.

Anne U
(who has lived in WisCAHNsin for many years)