Why do many Australians pronounce some words in a Kiwi way?

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yes we do, because we are geographically close and have gradually developed our accents in a similar way. Australians and Kiwis pronounce many words similar, i have a kiwi tudor so i would know.

i Love the Kiwi accent <3

â™¥liv

Aussies only speak like that if they're taking the piss of the the Kiwis, none ACTUALLY do.

BeThere4U

Guess the Kiwis and Aussie are the same people who immigrated to Australasia (Australia and New Zealand) about the same period. There are lots of movement between people of Australia and New Zealand and so the communication. Wouldn't know who started it all.

On a lighter note....probably they got together over a couple of beers and the slang followed.......

G'Day mite.

Jane S

People from New Zealand and Australia both come from a lot of the same places in Great Britain. There is bound to be some linguistic crossover.

mike3685

Australians and New Zealanders pronounce many words in a similar way and many differently. In the examples you gave, you are describing a way of speaking Australian English called the Broad accent. Many Australians don't speak with that accent.

There is often no reason why a particular word is pronounced a certain way, but there is pressure to pronounce words the way everybody else does, or in a way that a certain social class pronounces it.

New Zealand English is heavily influenced from the Scottish accent. You can hear similarities between NZ English and Scottish in the "i" sound in "fifty". They both sounds like how Australians would say "fufty".

Australian English did not "come from" Cockney. It does have some of the characteristics of it, but those characteristics also appear in other accents from the south of England. The Australian accent developed from a desire to understand each other's very different British accents and to not give away clues about where they were from or their social class from the way they spoke. American accents are so different to each other because various groups settled from different parts of the world at different times, and had little to do with each other.

Elizabeth

I don't know where in Australia you are but I've never heard any Aussie speak with an accent like that.
I've been involved with ADF personnel from all areas of Australia for many years and no-one has had an accent like that.

Edit:
I've given you my opinion and my own observations.
It was not my intention to say you were lying.
I apologise if you got that impression.

rustupd

I've never heard any Aussie speak with an accent like that unless they were having a go at a KIWI

Zebra

I'm a Kiwi & I don't get it.

Kiwi's pronounce dance the same way the English do, Australians pronounce it the way the Americans do.

I don't say "fufty" for the word "fifty", I say "fifty" with the i sounding like an i instead of the Australian way where an i is pronounced as though it's an e.

As for the person who claims the NZ accent is based on Scottish, how would that work when the first main groups of people to come here from the UK were English not Scottish & the Scottish influence in NZ is in the South Island only. Yet the accent in the North Island is no different to the South Island, so there goes that theory. The only distinction in accent in NZ is that people on the West Coast of the South Island roll their "R's" like a pirate & they are the only NZers that do that.

People from outside of NZ & Oz can never pick up how our accents are different, it all sounds the same to them. Just like I probably can't differentiate an accent between a Swede & a Norwegian.

Iskandar

We don't say it like that.

Kiwis have their own accent.

We also have our own accent and we don't pronounce words like the Americans do.

And for end? If we said end meaning and, don't you think it would be really really confusing?

Mel

Sorry mate, but I speak English. Not whatever gobbledegook you're trying to say.

Green Goblin

Because our accent changed. We can't still sound like the Cockneys after all these years.

I prefer it that way, and that's how I pronounce them, too. Also, it's not because we're copying the Kiwis, it's because we naturally sound like that. But the Kiwis DO make these words sound too E-ish. Some Kiwis say 'Heev' as in 'have'.

I say, "lehnd", "demend" and "pehnts" (as in pants). It's just OUR accent. Funny, I also think that we sound similar to the South Africans, but we're still uniquely different.

The last three answerers: You guys are kidding or what? Many of us do pronounce them like that. 'So You Think You Can Dance' is on, just go and watch that show and see how the Aussie judges and the contestants pronounce "dance".

QLD RULES

Who knows and who cares.

But I tend to think a Kiwi can pit on a Aussie accent but I have never ever seen an Aussie put on a good Kiwi accent yet.

Nathanial J

Duuuuuude, you got it really wrong.

These days, only a minority of us kangaroo riders sound remotely like that, and it is normally nasal sounding.

I have grown up in the outback, and the city, and i'm telling you, not many people are like that, its almost seen as a sign of a low level education if you pronounce the word incorrectly.

John B

its because us kiwi's are educating the aussie

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