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[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I think it depends a lot on how you say 'aunts'

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I don't think any Australians pronounce it like "ant".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

The correct Australian way to say ‘Aunt’ is how you would refer to Aunty Jack.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Aunty_Jack_Show

Although I am sure that a lot of the right-wing neo-regressive nut jobs that have popped up in Australia over the last few years would love to refer to her as “anti-Jack” because of the transgender nature of the show.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Yeah we need to resolve that first. Aunts are cool and take you to a theme park on summer break, whereas aunts don't let you sit on the good furniture and the only candy they have are those lozenges with the wrapper that looks like a strawberry

[–] Sup3rlativ3 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I think we need to address your use of the word candy first. It's lollies m8, fite me

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm American who wandered in, sorry

[–] Sup3rlativ3 5 points 11 months ago

I'll give you a pass just this once cobber, just don't shoot 🔫

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

As a General American speaker, all three of those are the same vowel for me, but I don't think that's true in a lot of the world (and also not in at least part of the US).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

For me it's "AHnt" for Aunt, "frANce" for France, and "pANts" for pants.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

🎵There's a place in France where the naked ladies dance

There's a hole in the wall where the men can see it all 🎵

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

If you say “France” or “dance” in a way that rhymes with “aunts”, you will open yourself up to merciless ribbing, with people affecting a posh English “oh I say old chap” accent every time you’re around. Far better to play up the Aussie drawl (and if in doubt, shorten a few words by replacing the last vowel with “-o”) to leave no doubt that you’re a true-blue dinky-di Aussie whose ancestors were transported for stealing a loaf of bread rather than someone who’d rather be wearing a top hat and sipping a Pimm’s.

[–] RIP_Cheems 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If you say aunts the same way so say pants, then it's both.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

As far as I’m aware, that pronunciation of aunts is never used by Australians.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I pronounce it like that

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Aunts. We're just a lot more posh over here in Adelaide.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You also pronounce the popular plastic building toy as “Laygo” so that nullifies any authority you may claim about correct pronunciation.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Yeah, tbh I was kinda hoping you weren't going to bring that one up.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Across Australia, linguists are revolutionising the understanding of how Aussies' voices differ from one another, fuelling new insights into what was once thought to be a monolithic accent.

In a 2023 research paper, Debbie Loakes and other linguists at the University of Melbourne found the Victorian habit of pronouncing "el" and "al" the same way (eg "celery" becomes "salary") was dying out among young people in the state's north, but persisting in the south.

Dr Loakes says linguists used to think younger Australians were trending away from the broad and cultivated accents toward a more general voice, but that recent work suggests the changes are more complicated.

ABC listeners may be familiar with the archetypal cadence and tone of Australia's national broadcaster, which certainly falls into the cultivated accent camp.

However, listening to archival recordings makes it clear that the "ABC accent" is far milder today than it was just a few decades ago, and many presenters actively reject it.

Despite recognising that people perceive varieties of Australian English differently, linguists have shied away from classifying them as separate accents.


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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (11 children)

How you says words ain’t important.

What matters if you says parma and potato cake or if you’re wrong.

[–] jagungal 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

or if you're wrong

Imagine having this level of self confidence. It's a potato scallop ya ~~nonce~~ eejit

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Jesus fuck mate, that’s really uncalled for.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I don’t appreciate being called a child molestor.

[–] jagungal 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Fuck, sorry mate. Didn't realise that's what it meant. I've only heard it used as an old equivalent for "idiot". Only wanted to have some banter.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

That’s dunce, ya dunce!

Edit: or nong. Don’t make a portmanteau of them.

All good.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

‘Franky’

It’s pronounced ’Franky’.

Isn’t it?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

@Zagorath by the way you say graph, I'll know where you're *not* from. I love Alan Kohler but every time he says graph, I flinch

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Personally I say graph with [ɑː], but there's something about the way Kohler says it that sounds more palatable than the American /æ/. I'm not really sure what it is.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I 100% thought the thumbnail was two people arguing over Poo! or Peww! and was really confused… it’s pool, so that’s alright then.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

It's not a true rhyme with either of them.