Curious Kids: Why do Aussies have a different accent to Canadians, Americans, British people and New Zealanders?
- Written by Felicity Cox, Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics Centre for Language Sciences (CLaS) ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders (CCD), Macquarie University
Australia and New Zealand are neighbours but our accents are quite different. We even have different words for things.www.shutterstock.com
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