[LINK] Re: Link Digest, Vol 174, Issue 13

[Paul Brooks]

Stewart Fist wrote:
>
> I'm from West Australia, so maybe there's a dialectic difference ...
> like how you South-Eastern-staters sometimes say Dahance, instead of Dance
> and then Cassl instead of Cahsall.
>
>   

Agh, don't get me started on Australian regional accents. I'm from 
Adelaide, where we are taught to speak properly - which sends my 
NSW-born inlaws into fits of laughter as they continually try to get me 
to say things like 'plant stand', and I have to remond them that 'plant' 
does NOT rhyme with 'ant'. Must be their common convict blood (sniff)! 
Still, I get the last laugh - my kids call them 'bathers', not the local 
'swimmers' or 'togs'.