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New Zealand English: Australian English
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Moving on again, the next two sounds that come to mind are found in both New Zealand and Australian English. The sounds are best illustrated by a joke. The scene is North Africa, at the height of fierce battles in World War 2. An Australian junior officer meets a British senior officer on the front line. "Good morning young man," says the British officer, "Did you come here to die?"
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Gordon goes so far as to assert that NZE is “in its origins […] a dialect of Australian English” (21). The Australian accent, which emerged in the first couple of decades of the nineteenth century, is older than that of NZ. As the influence of the Australian accent on the NZ accent is an accepted fact, the origins of the former variety of English must be considered. Many of the convicts in the prison settlement of Australia were from the London area, and more specifically the East End of London. It is through the indirect influence of the Australian accent that Cockney English – a dialect used by working class Londoners – influenced NZE.
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This is a website devoted to a multinational investigation of listener evaluations to general New Zealand English, Australian English, American English, and RP-type accents of English. The site shows the results of surveys in New Zealand, Australia, USA, Cornwall, Sweden, Finland, Germany, Singapore, and Fiji and contains discussion of the aims, methodology, questionnaire etc. Sound clips of the accents themselves are ... playable.
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