What are the main differences of Australian English (compared to British English and American English)?

Answer 1

Australian English is much closer to the original source, as it has had less time to corrupt, and has had more careful guidance, than has American English. Unlike American English, Australian is quite easy to understand, even by elderly English people.

To speak with an Australian accent you have to stare at the sun, allow your face to grimace in pain, and then keep your mouth fixed and unmoving, regardless of whatever vowel enunciation may be demanded of it.

Never forget that there is no such thing as an "English Accent" when speaking English, any more than there is a French accent when speaking French. However, there are a vast number of very different accents within Britain: many, many more than exist along the entire breadth of the US. Many of these accents are completely incomprehensible to people outside the region. If you were to compare the native speech of the residents of Newcastle, Glasgow, London, Liverpool, Devon, Suffolk and Cardiff, it would be easy to convince a foreigner that they were in fact all speaking different languages.

Answer 2

Australian English differs in that there is just the one dialect, whereas British English & American English both have many distinct dialects.
They all have different accents and some vocabulary differences.

Answer 3

Australian English is more like British English than like American English, but they seem to stretch some of their vowels and slur the others. Australian English is called "Strine" because in pronouncing "Australian" they'll ignore the Au and the l, and contract the other vowels into a rather long i-sound.

"Yeah" takes them like a minute to say, yeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaawwwwaaaahhh, but then they contract "Canberra" down to "C'nbra".

And they say G'day, barbie, and sheila.

Answer 4

Australians have a different accent and a few unique local words (slang etc) but is otherwise the same as British English so far as I know. Americans have the different accent and local words but also spell words differently eg. color vs colour.

Answer 5

Australian English: dialect of English spoken in Australia
British English: dialect of English spoken in Britain
American English: dialect of English spoken in the United States of America

Isn't it OBVIOUS?

Answer 6

Hello~~~~~

~~~~British English is the original and American and Austrailian are dialects of British English~~~~~ its just a few words which are said differenlty~~~~but you are still understood.

Answer 7

All it is is simply the usage of different words to mean the same thing.

Answer 8

they use different words like petrol for gasoline, dummy for a kids pacifier, servillet for a napkin, sheila for a girl, and so on

Answer 9

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