Mark Webber has not competed in Formula 1 racing for almost ten years, but the memory of his inimitable Aussie accent is still alive among racers and fans. And he is not alone - literally any American or English who has been in close contact with a representative of the Green Continent for some time will sooner or later tell you a story in the style of "do you know how they pronounce this word?"
In fact, Australian English is a unique linguistic phenomenon, one of the most distinctive varieties of the most widely spoken language on our planet. Yes, things are different in Australia. And the words to which we are so accustomed sometimes sound quite unexpectedly different there.
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#23

Enquiry. Australians say en-quiry. Americans say ink-wery.
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9points
#24

Antarctica - “Anardica”
Temperature - “Tempichure”
Van Gogh - “Van Go”
Graham - “Gram”
Craig - “Creg”
Herb - “Erb”
Emu - “Emoo”
Koala - “Koala bear”
Aussies - “Ahssies”
Mirror - “Mir”
Squirrel - “Skwerl”
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8points
#25

Caramel/car-mel and aluminium/alu-minum was the removal of a syllable really necessary?
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8points
#27

The name Megan.
Pronounced Meh-gan everywhere else.
Pronounced Mee-gan in Australia.
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7points
#28

Solder (EN) != sodder (US)
Soft-Ts (EN) vs hard-Ts (US) - tunes == choons, not toons
The massive over-emphasis on R-sounds and elimination of many L-sounds.
The many, many excuses that pop up if you mention the difference, about "that's how it used to be pronounced/spelled/etc", that are usually folk etymologies or just false.
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6points
#29

‘ Lever’ to sound like ‘leather’, and ‘missile’ to sound like the first syllable in ’mistletoe’.
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6points
#30

How no one is mentioning cement in here is amazing. Americans pronounce it seament as in semen instead of “Ceh-ment”
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5points





