Bradskii
I have become comfortably numb.
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Accents are complicated and it would take mountains of linguistic data to establish the existence of discrete state/capital city accents. The only one which comes close to being identifiable is Adelaide. To my ears Sydney accents are more obvious when you watch the daily state-by-state Covid press conferences. Sydney politicians seem to share a broad accent where 'day' turns into 'die' and other vowels get similarly mangled. Melbourne accents tend to be less pronounced.
I suspect what we know as Ocker is now more a socioeconomic and, possibly regional, thing rather than a rural/city split but accents ebb and flow with migration patterns.
While I was born in Oz, both parents were from Manchester with an accent you could cut with a knife. To this day i still hesitate over 'u' words like 'cut' and 'butter'.
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Someone once asked why we say 'but' at the end of random sentences. As in 'It's a nice day, but'. And it crossed my mind that maybe that was from the Welsh way of saying things.
In Old South Wales, your mate is your butty. Presumably a derivative of buddy. And more often than not shortened to butt. So in Wales we'd say 'It's a nice day, butt'. As in 'It's a nice day, mate'. I wondered if it had carried over. Especially in this area where there were a lot of Welsh immigrants into the coal mining areas, with a Cardiff and a Swansea and a Bringelly all local towns. Although fat chance of Bringelly being pronounced as it is in Wales.
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