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Maccas RunAn evening out, no matter how sophisticated, always ends with a late-night trip to Maccas (McDonald’s) or a stop at a greasy kebab shop or sketchy-looking van. This post-party snack ritual is known as a Maccas run.

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Maccas RunAn evening out, no matter how sophisticated, always ends with a late-night trip to Maccas (McDonald’s) or a stop at a greasy kebab shop or sketchy-looking van. This post-party snack ritual is known as a Maccas run.

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If catching a taxi alone, it’s expected that you’ll not only sit up front in the passenger seat but that you’ll also engage in small talk with the cabbie. If you don’t know how the taxi driver’s day has been and have no clue how he or she found themselves in said industry by the end of the journey, then you need to reevaluate your life in Australia.

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If catching a taxi alone, it’s expected that you’ll not only sit up front in the passenger seat but that you’ll also engage in small talk with the cabbie. If you don’t know how the taxi driver’s day has been and have no clue how he or she found themselves in said industry by the end of the journey, then you need to reevaluate your life in Australia.

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Boxing Day Test CricketWhile Boxing Day is comparable to America’s Black Friday, many Australians choose to skip the sales altogether and instead spend the day after Christmas on the couch, stubby in hand, air-con turned up high, watching and soon after falling asleep in front of the Boxing Day Test.

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Boxing Day Test CricketWhile Boxing Day is comparable to America’s Black Friday, many Australians choose to skip the sales altogether and instead spend the day after Christmas on the couch, stubby in hand, air-con turned up high, watching and soon after falling asleep in front of the Boxing Day Test.

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Humility and authenticity are strong values in Australian culture. As such, Australians are very down to earth and always mindful of not giving the impression that they think they are better than anyone else. They also tend to value sincerity, humour, informality, whilst loathing pretentiousness.

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Humility and authenticity are strong values in Australian culture. As such, Australians are very down to earth and always mindful of not giving the impression that they think they are better than anyone else. They also tend to value sincerity, humour, informality, whilst loathing pretentiousness.

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Australian Slang | Real Life English! | Vocabulary and Common Expressions

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The first general Australian dictionary was published with Graeme Johnston’s Australian Pocket Oxford Dictionary.

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Evidence points to an initiative within schools to teach the “correct” pronunciation of vowels and diphthongs, in words such as: day, go, cat, eat, school and cow. These lessons were said to include correct lip and tongue placements.

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The Chief Justice of Victoria, Sir John Madden, is recorded to have admonished young Australians for mispronouncing their diphthongs — encouraging them to instead “pronounce the English vowels as they were intended.”

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The 1890s: Evidence suggests elocution teachers, or instructors that taught a particular way of speaking, became sought after for lessons in British vowels and diphthongs within the socially aspirational classes. This “sought-after” form of speech is said to have become what is now known as Cultivated Australian.

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Reports from school inspectors in the various colonies (and later, states) reported mispronunciation of vowels and diphthongs by the younger students. A diphthong is a sound formed by the combination of two vowels in a single syllable, where the sound begins as one vowel and moves towards another (as in coin, loud, and side). There are diphthongs in every English accent, but they are very pronounced in the Australian accent.

Documents accused settlers of mispronouncing “maountain” for “mountain,” “taown” for “town,” and so forth. Another common criticism levied against the settlers was the “corruption” of -ing words, pronouncing them with the ending -en instead of -ing. Instead of saying writing, fishing, reading, the words more closely resembled a pronunciation of written, fishen, readen.

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The Australian accent developed through a process known as dialect leveling, which is when different dialects merge and assimilate until their distinct characteristics are removed. Convicts aboard the ships sent to Australia are believed to have spoken a variety of English accents, due to hailing from different areas of England.

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The Australian dialect, at least according to modern experts, began developing right after the arrival of European settlers and convicts.

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The major features of AusE pronunciation are:
It is non-rhotic.
Its intonation is flatter than that of RP (received pronunciation)
Speech rhythms are slow, stress being more evenly spaced than in RP.

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Consonants do not differ significantly from those in RP.
Vowels are in general closer and more frontal than in RP, with /i/ and /u/ as in tea, two diphthongized to /əɪ/ and /əʊ/ respectively.
The vowel in can't dance may be /æ/ or /a/.
The schwa is busier than in RP, frequently replacing /ɪ/ in unaccented positions, as in boxes, dances, darkest, velvet, acid.

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Perhaps the most obvious examples of Australian words which are now recognised in other variants of the language are ‘outback’, used to describe a remote location, and ‘barbie’, used instead of the noun ‘barbecue’. An example of an Australian-only expression, meanwhile, would be ‘doona’, which is used instead of the word ‘duvet’,

Like in British English, Australians say ‘aluminium’ rather than ‘aluminum’ and ‘mobile phone’ instead of ‘cell phone’. Australian English also utilises the words ‘anti-clockwise’ instead of the American ‘counter-clockwise’ and ‘petrol’ instead of the American ‘gasoline’. The cover on the front of a car is called a ‘bonnet’, rather than a ‘hood’, while an Australian will typically say ‘holiday’ instead of ‘vacation’.

Nevertheless, Australian English vocabulary differs from British English in many ways and Australians sometimes use American English words instead. For instance, Australians will usually say ‘soccer’ instead of ‘football’ and ‘overalls’ instead of ‘dungarees’. A ‘lorry’ is referred to as a ‘truck’ and the word ‘pants’ is used in place of ‘trousers’.

Moreover, there are some phrases which are common in both British and American English, but which very rarely feature in Australian English, if they are used at all. These include the word ‘abroad’, where an Australian would usually say ‘overseas’, and ‘village’, as even small settlements in Australia are usually called ‘towns’.

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Australian English vs American English truly takes on a life of its own when it comes to the pronunciation of words and this is why most people with Australian accents sound so distinctive. One of the most noticeable features is the different sound for the ‘i’ in words like ‘night’ and ‘like’. Instead, it sounds like a less pronounced ‘oi’, (e.g. ‘noight’).

The soft ‘a’, which can be heard in words like ‘cat’ and ‘hat’, is usually pronounced similar to ‘eh’. As such, this means that the word ‘cat’ sounds like ‘ceht’, while the word ‘hat’ sounds like ‘heht’.

Likewise, a similar phenomenon can be observed with the hard ‘a’ sound, which features in words like ‘day’, ‘way’ or ‘mate’. In this instance, the ‘a’ is pronounced somewhat similar to how a British English person might say the word ‘aye’. Therefore, the word ‘mate’ becomes ‘m-aye-te’.

In most cases, the ‘ing’ ending is not pronounced in full, meaning words like ‘singing’, ‘jumping’ and ‘catching’ are pronounced ‘singin’, ‘jumpin’ and ‘catchin’.

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Finally, Australian English is said to be a non-rhotic variation of the language, which means that the /r/ sound is not pronounced if it is after a vowel and not immediately followed by another vowel. For instance, the word ‘card’ is pronounced ‘caːd’, with the /r/ sound being dropped. Meanwhile, the ending of words like ‘better’ and ‘wetter’ is lowered, to sound similar to ‘ah’. This means you would say ‘bett-ah’, ‘wett-ah’, ‘riv-ah’, and so on.

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Australian English vs American English truly takes on a life of its own when it comes to the pronunciation of words and this is why most people with Australian accents sound so distinctive. One of the most noticeable features is the different sound for the ‘i’ in words like ‘night’ and ‘like’. Instead, it sounds like a less pronounced ‘oi’, (e.g. ‘noight’).

The soft ‘a’, which can be heard in words like ‘cat’ and ‘hat’, is usually pronounced similar to ‘eh’. As such, this means that the word ‘cat’ sounds like ‘ceht’, while the word ‘hat’ sounds like ‘heht’.

Likewise, a similar phenomenon can be observed with the hard ‘a’ sound, which features in words like ‘day’, ‘way’ or ‘mate’. In this instance, the ‘a’ is pronounced somewhat similar to how a British English person might say the word ‘aye’. Therefore, the word ‘mate’ becomes ‘m-aye-te’.

In most cases, the ‘ing’ ending is not pronounced in full, meaning words like ‘singing’, ‘jumping’ and ‘catching’ are pronounced ‘singin’, ‘jumpin’ and ‘catchin’.

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In terms of spelling, Australian English most closely resembles British English. The U is retained in words like "colour" and the "ise" ending is used instead of the americanised "ize" suffix on words like 'realise'/'realize'.

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Last, but not least, it is important to learn a few slang words that are widely used in Australia:

Amber – Beer or lager.
Aussie – An Australian person.
Drongo – Used in place of words like ‘idiot’ or ‘moron’.
Fair Dinkum – True, or genuine.
Gander – To have a look at something.
G’Day – Literally means ‘good day’ but is used as a general greeting.
Give It A Burl – Give it a try, or have a go.
Hooroo – Goodbye.
Oldies – Parents.
Pom/Pommie – A British person (be warned: this word can cause offense as it is generally used  in a derogatory manner).
Reckon – Used similar to ‘absolutely’.
Ripper – Similar to words like ‘great’, ‘fantastic’ and ‘awesome’.
She’s Apple – It is fine / It will be okay.
Tucker – Used to describe food of any type.
Yabber – Talk, or chat.

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The 3 Australian Accents: General, Cultivated & Broad | Australian Pronunciation

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Much like with British English, Australian English has irregular past tense and past participles of verbs like ‘spell’ and ‘smell’, so they become ‘spelt’ and ‘smelt’, respectively. However, like with American English, Australians are more likely to say numbers like 1,100 as “eleven hundred”, rather than “one thousand, one hundred”.

When dealing with collective nouns, Australian English has more in common with the American version of the language. For example, both Australians and Americans would say “the football team has scored a goal”, whereas in British English, they would say “the football team have scored a goal”.