Hi, Liz, The book by Charlie Haycock sounds worth checking out. If you are interested in the origin of the Australian accent, there is an excellent book called 'Speaking Our Language: The Story of Australian English' by Bruce Moore - published by Oxford University Press. My recollection of Moore's book is that he found that it was the children of the currency lads and lasses who first spoke with a recognisable Australian accent. Regards Merril > Elizabeth Walker <lizrose@tpg.com.au> wrote: > > Good afternoon Lesley and listers. > > I have just been given by one of my Marjoram relatives in England, a > book from the U.K. called "Caw'd a Hell Thas Suffen Good" by a fellow > who writes under the name of Charlie Haycock, and I have found it very > entertaining. > > It is about the Suffolk and Norfolk dialects which are pretty similar, > and they are supposedly markedly different to the other county dialects > in England. The writer (who I believe is a teacher by profession, as > well as a brilliant speaker according to another of my Marjoram > researchers in Suffolk), makes the claim that Suffolk and then Norfolk > contributed the most convicts to the colony in New South Wales, and he > claims that this is why the Australian accent in general sounds much > like the accents of these two counties. > > Leslie have you worked out the proportion of convicts which came from > the various English counties, and is there any foundation on what > Charlie claims. > > Comments please. :-) > > Liz at The Lake where its pretty soggy underfoot. > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > AUS-PT-JACKSON-CONVICTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message