Australian English by ObenInnaSüd

Australian English is not the English that we already know. It has different pronunciations, word formation and many other things that tell Australian English apart from British and American English. Therefore I will tell you more about Australian English.
The first fact is the word formation process. It has four kinds’ compound, blending, clipping and acronym. The first word formation process is compound. It means that you take two words and put them together like football. The whole word is a special kind of the final word (ball). The second word formation process is Blending. It means that you fuse the first letters of a word and the final part of the second word like breakfast &lunch➔ brunch. The third word formation process means that you take a part of a word and left the rest of the word like camera➔ cam. This word formation process is called clipping. The last word formation process is acronym. It is used in words like GB. You take the first letter of the words and pronounce it like a single word (Great Britten➔ GB).
The second fact is the pronunciation. The endings -ure, -er, -or, -ar, -our, -a, -re in words like water are pronounce as /a/ /wɔ:ta/, in Br /wɔːtə/ and in AmE it is pronounced /wɑtər/. But it is not the only different pronunciation in Australian English. The “t” in words like better is pronounced like a /ɾ/ or “t-flap”. It means, that the tongue moves back in the mouth after spelling the /ɾ/. It usually occurs between two vowels. The last facts are Aboriginal words and idiomatic expressions in Australian English. An example for an Aboriginal word is Jumper. Jumper means sweater in American English. An example for an idiomatic expression is “It is raining cats and dogs”. It doesn´t mean that it´s raining cats and dogs, It means that it is raining heavily. All in all you see that Australian English is like a own language. It has many differences between British English and American English like the pronunciation of water and the t-flap. I hope that I helped you with Australian English.

One thought on “Australian English by ObenInnaSüd

  1. G´day ObenInnaSüd,
    i have read your text about AusE.
    You don´t have a fact about hypocoristics or about word formation processes in AusE.
    You have some facts about the pronunciation.
    I think you forgot to compare British English and American English.
    In the next text do not just write about one fact, try to have all categories which are important

    An erster Stelle freu ich mich für Memet, digga

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