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.

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

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

 

 

 

 

Hahaha - in Melbourne it's Stras(bourg)

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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.

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

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 ? 

 

 

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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

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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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@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)