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Wherever it was, I wish it would go right back there.
 
I'm getting annoyed with people who say twittahhh for twitter, war-tahh for water... bear-yah for beer etc.

Girls who say now as neeeow. and somehow manage to work in a subtle oi sound into home, so its almost hoime.

People who mix up el and al sounds.. mostly in Victoria you can hear Melbourne as Malbourne and album as elbum. On the football a few years ago, one commentator would refer to Malcolm as Melcolm and then say Malbourne.
 

That's something I find quite telling, actually, telling something about the person using the "-ahh" and "oi" sounds, that is. Kiwis and their vowel shifts aside, I reckon those "ahh"s are a Bogan's attempt at appearing posh. Always reminds me of Hyacinth Boo-kaye, whose husband's name was Bucket and whose sister has a Mercedes and room for a pony. Instead of annoying, I find the attitude rather quaintly amusing: a result of the British two-class caste system.
Anyway, IMHO it takes a twit to tweet on twitter, so I don't care how they pronounce it.
 
"Yeah" at the end of every sentence.

and OMG .............just STOP IT
 
MrBurns said:
"Yeah" at the end of every sentence.

and OMG .............just STOP IT
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Even worse, at the start of every sentence: 'yeah, no'. What on earth is that supposed to mean?
Just awful.

I can think of one excellent reason to hope the Labor government will not be re-elected, and that is Anthony Albanese's pronunciation of "Orstraya"! His voice sounds as though it would be more at home on a Disney cartoon.

And if I hear one more ABC journalist saying "owah" for "hour" I'll go nuts!
 
hah i was just about to post about owahhs instead of hours. i forgot to put it in the other night.

yeah, but nah at the end of the day, all things being equal she'll be roit.
 
When I went to school (admittedly that was a long time ago) my English teacher said you could always tell if someone was gutter-bred by the way they pronounced the word "film".

It is strange that now, people who are obviously not gutter-bred, are saying "nothink" and "somethink". The next step down is "nuffink".

Urban Dictionary.
 
Bill Shorten doesn't pronounce "th" in some of his words........not all but some.........such as "wiv" instead of with, could be just a speech imperilment but if it is it should all the time.
 
I really hate the way some people pronounce Australia as Aushtralia with a 'sh' sound where it should just be an 's' sound. One of the worst culprits is Michael Clarke, unfortunately being the captain of the 'Aushtralian' cricket team he says it quite frequently
 
MrBurns said:
Bill Shorten doesn't pronounce "th" in some of his words........not all but some.........such as "wiv" instead of with, could be just a speech IMPEDIMENT but if it is it should all the time.
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Calliope said:
When I went to school (admittedly that was a long time ago) my English teacher said you could always tell if someone was gutter-bred by the way they pronounced the word "film".
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When I first came to regional Qld I wondered what people were talking about when they referred to a 'fillim'.

One that we hear every day is 'mannafactoring' instead of 'manufacturing'.
 
Nearly all newsreaders say "elecshern". In fact it is almost universal for younger Australians to bung in an "r" sound in the suffix "-tion".
 
kilo pronounced as keelo.. just say kilogram

an ad on tv where they keep saying 'these ones' you don't need to say the ones.

eddie mcguire.
 
The confusion about 'your' and 'you're' continues.

Is it so hard to remember that 'your' refers to what belongs to you, and 'you're' is a contraction of 'you are'???

There's another strange misuse, common to both journalists and politicians, ie saying 'understated' when they mean 'overstated'.

eg If they're talking about a really significant problem, they often say "our concern about this cannot be understated." No. If you are really worried about it, then your concerns cannot be overstated, i.e. there are no words which can emphasise too much the gravity of the problem.
Seems that people just don't stop to think about what they're saying at times.
 
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