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Diamondrg Posted 19 years ago
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0 It's an Australian accent. 0-

— Nona the brit

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01cite10Nona The Brit12cite10It's an Australian accent.12blockquote
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0 LOL, those Australian accents are so weird!02br
00I think I heard someone pronounce KFC as Ky-F-Say! Do you sometimes find it difficult to understand Australian accents, in the UK? I believe Americans find it more difficult than you Brits, but...0-
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0A guy once introduced himself to me as Dive-id. I said, "What an interesting name. I've never heard it before". It turns out he was from AustrI-lia. 05002br
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0I think we usually find the Australian accents fairly easy to understand over here. I've never had a problem with them so far.02br
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0 Actually although to speakers of other varieties of English, they seem to use a sound that sounds very much like the "i" in "kite", for the "ay" sound in "Kate", but that is not the case. In NAE and BrE, "kite" is /kaIt/. In Australian English, "Kate" is /kæIt/. However, that vowel sounds almost the same as /aI/, rather than /eI/ to speakers of other varieties of English. For "kite", they
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01cite10CalifJim12cite10A guy once introduced himself to me as Dive-id. I said, "What an interesting name."12blockquote
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01cite10Marvin12cite10In Australian English, "Kate" is /kæIt/. However, that vowel sounds almost the same as /aI/, rather than /eI
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0 By the way -- what is Desmond's accent, and what is Charlie's accent (in Lost)? 0-
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0 Desmond is from Scotland, Charlie is from Manchester, England. 0-
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