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

[redandblack]

and which do you say and is it right?

[Dirko]

With a L.

But I was also told to spell how H.O.W not H.I.O.W

[Strawb]

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]

With a L.

But I was also told to spell how H.O.W not H.I.O.W

Reasonable point, SJABC

Corrected.

[redandblack]

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

[Strawb]

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

valid point but it is funny how we australian's all speak engrish and yet weall speak it differently

[Psyber]

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

The same way one gets Chumleigh out of Cholmondeley, and Fanshaw out of Featherstonehaugh, old boy..
One goes to the right school, and one learns.....

[Ian]

....and anythink out of anything

[Psyber]

....and anythink out of anything

That's the wrong school old chap..

[Footy Chick]

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

rubbish. CASTLE is victorian lingo, not english lingo. I used to have this argument with my mates in Horsham all the time because I say CAASTLE. Just like they sall mAll and we say maaall.

If it was a mAll, it would only be spelt with one L.. right MAL? You pronounce the "all"

We don't play "footbal" or make a phone "cal" do we?

Logical really

btw, vulnerable is definitely with an "L"

[bayman]

some victorians i know pronounce accident as accidint & the dents (from bumps etc) in a car are pronounced dints ........even when you explain that the word accident ends in dent & the dints should be dents.....even victorians who have lived here for over 20 years

[GWW]

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??

[Ian]

I've heard some Queenslanders say dint instead of dent

[A Mum]

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

[SABRE]

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

She may have spent time in Victoria 'A Mum'. I was born and schooled in Sydney and we were
always taught "castle" as in "cast a line", not "cassle". I never knew people anywhere said "cassle"
until years later whilst working in Central Victoria, the local 'mexicans' went apesh*t if you said
anything but "Casslemaine".

Of course I continued to say "Castlemaine" correctly at every opportunity in an effort to help
the 'missing links' raise themselves from the primordial soup, but just like in football, those ignorant
peasants simply refuse to be educated.

[FattyLumpkin]

We can fall off a wall on the way to a ball. Or shall we go to the ball via the mall? Bloody English!

[bayman]

english language is as bad as latin.....then again a lot of english words come from latin

[Pseudo]

With a L.

But I was also told to spell how H.O.W not H.I.O.W

Nevertheless your educators were remiss in not teaching you to say "an L"

[Interceptor]

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.

[Psyber]

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.

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.

Over the years I started to sound more Victorian, speaking more quickly and with shorter vowels, but I never adopted "cassle" etc.
I kept my "a" long, and I'm moving back to my original speech patterns now I'm back here.