Aussies Used Talk Different

[icyfroth]

Watching the Australian Story on Andrew "Boy" Charlton last night it struck me how the newsreaders of the day had a much "plummier"

accent.

Almost  but quite quite the "pommy" rrrrrowwnded vowels. Distinctly Orstrelian.

We've relaxed a lot since then and grown into our own accent.

But it's nice to listen to the way the old narrators and newsreaders used to speak in their formal way. God forbid they should use the accent of the broader aussie population

Here's an example:

[the_great_she_elephant]

I'm not sure if it was a NSW thing, but my MIL used to say 'without' instead of unless. e.g. I won't be going shopping today without it stops raining.

My NSW rellies also say devon where we in the West say polony, and cozzie instead of bathers.

[kilroy_is_here]

An accent is the way a word is spoken , dialect is having different meanings to words and a different way of describing items within the English language , I am trying to find the study on line but have not had any luck so far

[the*scarlet*pimpernel]

In Broken Hill devon is called Fritz, I think it's a Sth Australian thing.

[imastawka]

Hahaha - in Melbourne it's Stras(bourg)

[lakeland27]

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@i-need-a-martini wrote:

That 'plummier' accent wasn't just for the newsreaders. My mother-in-law had that accent. I remember her telling me that her mothers instilled it in her even though they were fairly low-middle class. 

My 80 year old neighbour still has a touch of it too. 

PS. And I agree about those from Adelaide - definitely have the plummier sounding accents. One of my closest friends is from Adelaide and when I first met her I thought "Who the hell does she think she is with that fake accent?". And then I went out with her friends, met her family and realised they ALL had it.

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  all of my family on Adelaide have that accent , they tell me i sound like a victorian.. my friends here say i sound like a south australian.

in the end i wind up feeling stateless.

[serendipityricho]

Ah--poloney --------Pimpy lol...........................Richo.

[pct001wine]

I remember getting into a bit of a stoush with a Western Australian over the pronunciation of Albany, which of course should be pronounced "Awl-ba-nee" not "Al-ba-nee".  I mean, what would the locals know ? 

[lind9650]

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@lyndal1838 wrote:

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@lind9650 wrote:

What we Victorians call a suitcase, in NSW it is a Port. I could go on with other expressions, but It would take all night.

Erica 😉

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That is very generalised Erica.  I lived for 21 years in the eastern suburbs of Sydney and have lived for 44 years and counting in a south eastern suburb of Sydney and never have I heard a suitcase called a port.

What part of NSW were you referring to?

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Lyndal, it was in the 1970s when my then husband and I went to Newcastle to visit with his family. His cousin asked me where my port was, and I told her I did not drink port. My husband nearly killed himself laughing and then explained that a port meant a suitcase. A few other funny incidents happened while we were there, but I soon learned. Perhaps Sydney is more sophisticated?

Erica

[lakeland27]

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@the*scarlet*pimpernel wrote:

I grew up in far northern NSW.  We packed our ports for holidays, packed our ports for school. If someone was unwelcome they were told to pack their ports and git.  I think bag has taken over from port now.

I lived at Broken Hill for a while, they have their own dialect, as does Walgett.

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 a 'port' is an abbreviation of Portmanteau i think  http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/portmanteau

[the*scarlet*pimpernel]

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@lakeland27 wrote:

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@the*scarlet*pimpernel wrote:

I grew up in far northern NSW.  We packed our ports for holidays, packed our ports for school. If someone was unwelcome they were told to pack their ports and git.  I think bag has taken over from port now.

I lived at Broken Hill for a while, they have their own dialect, as does Walgett.

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 a 'port' is an abbreviation of Portmanteau i think  http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/portmanteau

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a french word! gosh my mob were a bit posh afterall LOL  (mostly convicts, truth be known)