How were you taught to say .............

and which do you say and is it right?
SJABC wrote:With a L.
But I was also told to spell how H.O.W not H.I.O.W
Strawb07 wrote:i speak the queens english
Now how od you get sothick out of southwark
and kisick out of keswick
and it is a castle not a carstle
redandblack wrote:Strawb07 wrote:i speak the queens english
Now how od you get sothick out of southwark
and kisick out of keswick
and it is a castle not a carstle
Depends where you live, Strawb. You Melbourneites find a way to make the name O'Dwyer have four syllables![]()
I think it's a castle not a cassell
The same way one gets Chumleigh out of Cholmondeley, and Fanshaw out of Featherstonehaugh, old boy..Strawb07 wrote:i speak the queens english
Now how od you get sothick out of southwark
and kisick out of keswick
and it is a castle not a carstle
That's the wrong school old chap..Ian wrote:....and anythink out of anything
Strawb07 wrote:i speak the queens english
Now how od you get sothick out of southwark
and kisick out of keswick
and it is a castle not a carstle
GWW wrote:Are Victorians the only state with these much different ways of saying "castle", "school" etc. Do people from NSW say Newcastle the SA or Victorian way??
A Mum wrote:GWW wrote:Are Victorians the only state with these much different ways of saying "castle", "school" etc. Do people from NSW say Newcastle the SA or Victorian way??
I'm pretty sure the Victorian way.
We had an Aunty come visit us from NSW when we were kids - she spoke a whole different lot of pronunciations than we did - which made us kids laugh
SJABC wrote:With a L.
But I was also told to spell how H.O.W not H.I.O.W
When I was first in Melbourne I had problems with local typists mis-translating my dictation. Eventually I found a Tassie girl who could understand English, Adelaide style.Interceptor wrote:The Vics definitely seem to have developed their own (questionable) combination of accent and pronounciations.
You can hear it from some of them in the media (mainly footy).
At Uni I can remember a lecturer who was originally from NSW and would refer to a "graf" on the board.
There were always certain students who would make a point of telling him the word was "graph"![]()
My grandfather (also from NSW) used to pronounce school as "schule".
Went out with a girl up here who commented that I "had an accent".
Anyone else (from Adelaide) who has gone interstate and received similar comment?
I'm thinking not so much on certain words (like chance, dance, castle), but in general.