A good place to start learning about variation in Australian English is the Australian Voices website at Macquarie University and there’s of course always Barbara Horvath’s 1985 classic Variation in Australian English: The Sociolects of Sydney. There is heaps of linguistic variation among the English-speaking Australian-born: in terms of region, class, age, ethnicity and gender, to name the most-researched.
This is patently wrong.” It is patently wrong on two levels: In the piece, Ross Cameron lists all kinds of facts and factoids as evidence of his claim that Australia is “the country that won the lottery.” It is the following of these “facts” that caught my attention:Įlsewhere, accents fractionate people into place of origin but there is no change in inflection among the Australian-born from Perth to Parramatta.Īs one of the comments on the Sydney Morning Herald website, where the piece appeared, says: “You should get out more. Australia is no exception and one of the more over-excited ones that was produced on the occasion of Australia Day last week came from Ross Cameron, a former Liberal (and in Australia that means “conservative”) member of parliament, who got voted out of office in 2004.
MONOLINGUAL COUNTRIES FULL
National holidays are there to celebrate the nation and the opinion pages tend to be full of self-congratulation on such occasions.
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