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<blockquote data-quote="Caedrel" data-source="post: 409862" data-attributes="member: 7477">'StrineVeyr true - in fact, I think we Australians always pronounce the H at the beginning - &quot;a history&quot;, &quot;a herb&quot; and would only drop it out when making fun of an English accent <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> (&quot;an 'erb&quot;, &quot;an 'istory&quot;, &quot;'ow about it, then, guv?&quot; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />)While you can get an idea what state of Australia someone comes from by their accent, there's not a lot of difference despite our sizable geographic dispersity: there's much less variation than in the US (which is of comparable size and age) and the UK (which is a lot, lot smaller but also a much more established country and culture). Is the UK becoming less varied, accent-wise, as time goes on with the advent of TV, radio, mass communication, etc?I recall someone saying once that actors in the US were taught to speak with a Californian accent, because that was the least prominent or most generic of the US accents... New Yorker seems quite popular to me, but maybe it's just been popularised by all the sitcoms set in the place <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Caedrel, post: 409862, member: 7477"] [b]'Strine[/b] Veyr true - in fact, I think we Australians always pronounce the H at the beginning - "a history", "a herb" and would only drop it out when making fun of an English accent :) ("an 'erb", "an 'istory", "'ow about it, then, guv?" :)) While you can get an idea what state of Australia someone comes from by their accent, there's not a lot of difference despite our sizable geographic dispersity: there's much less variation than in the US (which is of comparable size and age) and the UK (which is a lot, lot smaller but also a much more established country and culture). Is the UK becoming less varied, accent-wise, as time goes on with the advent of TV, radio, mass communication, etc? I recall someone saying once that actors in the US were taught to speak with a Californian accent, because that was the least prominent or most generic of the US accents... New Yorker seems quite popular to me, but maybe it's just been popularised by all the sitcoms set in the place :) [/QUOTE]

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