'Haitch' or 'aitch'? How do you pronounce 'H'?

[birdy]

definitely not from Boston - she would have said, "Hee-yuh."  That would be in answer to the question, "Way-uh?"

[Alan W]

Doesn't sound typically Australian at all. We tend to omit an R sound at the end of any word. So par and pa are pronounced pretty much the same. Likewise when there is an R at the end of a syllable before another consonant. Torque = talk.

[pat]

Perhaps the woman from Brisbane was an opera singer, R-M. I happened to catch the Toreador Song from Carmen on the radio yesterday: "To-rrre-a-dorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, oh to-rrre-a-dorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr".

[rogue_mother]

If they don't really talk that way in Brisbane, perhaps it was a matter of personal style. The young woman seemed to be full of herself, so she might have been putting on an affectation. Her mother, who was in the same show, didn't speak that way.

[smaug]

Ok then US citizens
why do you pronounce 'buoy', 'boo - ee'?

[Linda]

My question is ... why do (some!) Australians speak as though they're asking a question when they're not?  There seems to be an invisible question mark lingering above their heads.  Do you know what I mean?  Even worse is their pronunciation of the word 'no' ... noy?!  Sorry, to have offended all Aussies but I have been watching Australia's Next Top Model (!) recently and it was very noticeable! 

[pat]

Linda, it's not just (some) Australians whose statements rise at the end as if they were asking questions. It's fairly common amongst English people too. I used to have a colleague who spoke like that; after a while it gets really annoying.

[smaug]

Never heard on Aussie say ' noy' for no
Is that said in a posh, middle or working class English accent Linda?  >:

I love the different English accents, especially Cockney .Cant see why you cant love ours too

[Linda]

I am totaly accentless, smaug!! 

Am not a Geordie, Scouser, Mancunian and definitely not a Cockney!  Don't drop my aitches, don't say 'fink' instead of 'think', don't elongate my words, e.g. 'barth' for 'bath' ... see, totally accentless with just a hint of northenness to the trained ear!! 

[TRex]

I am totaly accentless, smaug!! 

In the U.S., the national news anchors are supposed to be without an accent. But to those from the southern U.S., they sound like 'Yankees'. I think everyone has an accent of some sort: it all depends on one's perspective.

My experience is that U.S. people, save mariners, tend to pronounce buoy as 'boo - ee', but mariners tend to pronounce it 'boy'.

[smaug]

Yes T - I think we all have some sort of accent which makes for different pronunciations -

so leave us poor Aussies alone you guys

If you dont like listening to us, turn us off!

[Steadyguy]

We don't mind. It is all part of that great mix in the Big Society.  Aussies, we luv ya, especially as we could be giving you a hammering at the Woolloongabba tonight!!!!

[grakay]

Let's get it right, either "Woolloongabba" or "The 'Gabba".  The suburb is Woolloongabba, an Australian aboriginal word meaning "the place of the waterholes"
And the match will be a draw, anyway.

[grakay]

And it finished in a draw!  Hate to say I told you so!!

I bet Ricky would have loved to say "Here, Glen,(or Shane) you have a bowl". 

[a non-amos]

If the contest is regarding regional accents, this contest would be best finished in a drawl.

Shall we celebrate our differences?