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article in the “ Bulletin ” on universal speech says that “ Australians don’t drop their ‘ h’s ' as many Cockneys do: but representatives of all classes say something like wyte for wait and ahs for ours.” This writer says, truly, that anvbody who has
visited Australia can identify an Australian voice abroad, and nobody can tell what part of the Commonwealth it comes from. That is “ Touchstone's ” opinion, too. Most Australians have a nasal slightly slangy accent. If there is one outstanding mispronunciation. too, it is the inability to give a pure “ee ” sound. Consequently tree becomes tray and three becomes thrav. • TOUCHSTONE.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20329, 12 June 1934, Page 6
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