Modern Australian

Why do Aussies have a different accent to Canadians, Americans, British people and New Zealanders?

  • Written by Felicity Cox, Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics Centre for Language Sciences (CLaS) ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders (CCD), Macquarie University
Why do Aussies have a different accent to Canadians, Americans, British people and New Zealanders?Australia and New Zealand are neighbours but our accents are quite different. We even have different words for things.www.shutterstock.com

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