Re: OT: Two countries separated by a common language

On Sun, May 18, 2003 at 12:27:24AM +1000, Tristan McLeay wrote:
> No, vegemite is Australian for nutella :) (Though I wouldn't try eating
> them the same way... nutella and cheese sounds like a rather revolting
> idea, nor would one want to use too much vegemite. Or putting nutella in
> bolognese sauce...)
Eyeugh.  Yeah. :)

> I understand they regard /gra:f/ as a Melbournism. Admittedly, I say
> /t&l@gra:f/ and /p&r@gra:f/, but I only do that in compounds.
You prounounce "telegraph" as [t&l@gra:f]?  That seems odd to me.
I haven't run into examples of phonemic /E/ turning into [&].  Although the
reverse seems common enough in certain circumstances, and in fact my
pronunciation of "paragraph" is pretty much ['pE`r\@,gr&f].  First
syllable sounds just like "pear" or "pair", rhming with "hair", "care",
etc.  All rhoticized short e's in my idiolect.

-Mark

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