Re: OT: Worcestershire sauce

On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, Mark J. Reed wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 05:24:19PM -0400, Tristan McLeay wrote:
> > 'fOst@z.  Ostr&lj&n f@ 'bij@.
> >
> > That's a funny pronunciation of 'Australian', looks decidedly American.
> > And 'beer', too.
>
> Nah.  The American pronunciation of "Australian" has a long A /ej/ in the
> middle; it sounds to me like the Hollywood Australian accent replaces it
> with the short A /&/.
Yeah, I know, but an initial /O/ like that? Once you've had that, the rest
is unforgiveably american. /@str&ij@n/ :) (Because /j/ for /lj/ is looked
down upon, I'd probably say /li/, actually.)

>  As to "beer", in the rhotic American
> dialects (which the vast majority are), it's /bI`r\/.
I meant it looked odd too. It looks as unamerican as unaustralian (the
True Blue Australian Pronunciation would be [bI:@], with the [@] being
rather minor and existing because it's got nothing after it, the poor
isolated sound. In mid-sentence, it wouldn't exist).

--
Tristan                  <kesuari@...>

Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still
be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement.
                -- Snoopy

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