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PrintableMoonbeam said: kcwm said: I'm an Aussie
One thing that gets me is (mainly people from the UK do this there might be others) people who over pronunciate (if thats a word  ) eg "thing" they will say thinG and make the G really stand out  Dialects are a funny thing? Some seem to be understandable, such as when I've noticed Aussies throw in an "r" sound when one word ends in a vowel and the subsequent word starts with a vowel. For example, an Aussie may pronounce the sentence "Linda always has to get the last word" as "Linder always has to get the last word". Others, however, don't make much sense to me, such as those in Queensland calling their rugby team the "marOWNs"?  How else do you pronounce marone? And yes I am a Queenslander. I didn't realise there was any other way to pronounce it. And weird I just tested out your "r" theory and I did it. I actually find it hard to say that sentence without adding an r. I never noticed that. And why did Americans change it to zee? Just so it would rhyme in the alphabet? [Edited 7/2/08 3:02am] | |
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