Hi All, I was lucky enough to visit Hampshire for just two days on my visit in 2000. I loved the accent and the people I met in Kingsclere, all so helpful and kind. When I first came to Australia I noticed an upward inflection at the end of sentences, that was in N.S.W. I thought the Queenslanders sounded like they came southern U.S.A. Now I don't notice any difference except in pronunciation of different words. I was quiet annoyed when in England that no one thought I came from Oz, I had to go around saying G'Day :o). Good health and Peace to all. Carol ----- Original Message ----- From: "Len Payne" <lenpayne@telus.net> To: <HAMPSHIRE-LIFE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, January 19, 2003 3:28 AM Subject: [HantsLife] Accents > Well 'oil tel 'ee, I'm bloomin glaad, 'oin ain't gotten hacent, bein > 'ampsher bred 'oim unnerstud whenevers 'oi go. Unfortunately, we in the > Great Land of Canada, have a French Canadian Prime Minister who cannot be > understood in either official language...Len, in a BRILLIANT SUNNY, > Aldergrove, Saturday morning...Hello World and take care Seamus. > > ______________________________

David and I went to Hawaii 18 months ago and we had only to open our mouths and say 2 or 3 words and everyone was swanning at our feet saying "Oh wow, you're Australian?" Now that's really funny because David comes from Enfield, Middlesex and as far as I'm concerned sounds *totally* like a Pomme. He drops his t's and h's, sleeps on a 'pillar' at night and other such amazing inventions-of-speech. (He also excuses all of this by saying that he's a Cockney. I don't *think* so!!) He was 11 when he came to Oz and is 48 now. There's no hope is there? I'm an ex-Pom too, coming from Bucks at the age of 15, but few people pick up on it. All the best everyone, May LANCHBURY LANCHBURY WebSite... http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~lanchbury

Hi Carol A good contribution to the accents thread. In general people from the UK who have settled in Australia usually are picked up very quickly when they return home as having an Aussie accent but in fact we in Australia find that you never completely lose your "Englishness" even though you may try very hard there is always something very different there to give you away. I have been mistaken for a Pom myself by many Australians and I was born and bred here, (our ancestors arrived here in 1788 with the first fleet). I consider my speech typically Australian so it must be my suntanned peaches and cream complexion that fools them, or maybe my good looks and handsome personality (ha ha). I think I would rather have Kent accent than an Australian one. My brother in-law came from Kent a sailor during WW2 on the "HMS Formidable" air craft carrier, he spoke very nicely, not posh, but sounded nice, maybe that's where my mistaken Pom identity came from I could have picked up on his accent a little bit, (us Hobbses are great mimics). When I hear Australian speech on the TV or Radio, Sit-Com's or Soapie's, I shudder, Not news commentary though that seems to be acceptable. (I think this is what we call the cultural cringe) The upward inflection you referred to, making every sentence sound like a question is a relatively recent innovation, I noticed it started firstly among the young particularly in NSW some years ago. My theory is that they the young people, may not have been as sure of themselves as say an older person who should be more experienced. This could have been the younger persons way of making a statement without sounding as if they are expert on the subject. When my three daughters were young each went through that same stage also, but now they are older they never seem to use it any more. (Hence my theory). . Cheers Maureen & Brian Hobbs ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carol Lawrence" <carol@twpo.com.au> To: <HAMPSHIRE-LIFE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 4:33 PM Subject: Re: [HantsLife] Accents > Hi All, > I was lucky enough to visit Hampshire for just two days on my visit in 2000. > I loved the accent and the people I met in Kingsclere, all so helpful and > kind. > When I first came to Australia I noticed an upward inflection at the end of > sentences, that was in N.S.W. > I thought the Queenslanders sounded like they came southern U.S.A. Now I > don't notice any difference except in pronunciation of different words. > I was quiet annoyed when in England that no one thought I came from Oz, I > had to go around saying G'Day :o). > Good health and Peace to all. > Carol > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Len Payne" <lenpayne@telus.net> > To: <HAMPSHIRE-LIFE-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, January 19, 2003 3:28 AM > Subject: [HantsLife] Accents > > > > Well 'oil tel 'ee, I'm bloomin glaad, 'oin ain't gotten hacent, bein > > 'ampsher bred 'oim unnerstud whenevers 'oi go. Unfortunately, we in the > > Great Land of Canada, have a French Canadian Prime Minister who cannot be > > understood in either official language...Len, in a BRILLIANT SUNNY, > > Aldergrove, Saturday morning...Hello World and take care Seamus. > > > > ______________________________ > > > ==== HAMPSHIRE-LIFE Mailing List ==== > To contact the List Administrator: chris@chayles.freeserve.co.uk > To unsubscribe from the list: > Mail: HAMPSHIRE-LIFE-L-request@rootsweb.com > Digest: HAMPSHIRE-LIFE-L-request@rootsweb.com > In both cases put "unsubscribe" in the subject header and no text in the message box > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >