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The English language is the most commonly used language in the world Depending onwhere you live, learning Australian English or British English may be an option Whilethere are many similarities, there are also some differences between Australian Englishand British English.
Different words that have the same meaning.
Accents:
British settlers arrived in Australia to settle, with most of them coming from Ireland orLondon The Australian accent changed when Americans began to influence AustralianEnglish The Australian accent is well-known around the globe.
Pronunciation
is the most commonly used form of pronunciation, according to Oxford University
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variants are:
other hand, this sound can be pronounced hard like in words as ‘way,’ or ‘mate.’
Australian English The ‘ing’ ending isn’t pronounced in full In words ‘’singing,’ or ‘jumping’ it is pronounced as ‘singin’ and ‘jumpin.’
The best examples are ‘pool,’ ‘cool,’ or ‘school.’ Aussie used to pronounce them as ‘pewl,’ ‘cewl’ and ‘skewl.’
Invention:
British English was born out of a divided society into classes, which is still evident day This is less evident in Great Britain, but it still differentiates between British Eng-lish and Australian English Australia was founded by immigrants, and it is a societythat is non-classist Australians began using Aboriginal words and names in the 19thcentury This could have impacted pronunciation, as it was a result of the Aboriginalpeople who have lived there.
to- The diminutive:
While English speakers in Britain will use whole words, Australian English speakerswill use words in the diminutive These words, often shortened from British words, areoften added with a vowel at the end This is the case with afternoon, which is BritishEnglish Arvo is Australian English for the afternoon There are about 5,000 diminutivewords used by Australians.
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Australian English spellings are a mixture of American English and British English Thespellings of shorter words are more similar to British spellings, while longer words aremore American English.
Grammar:
Australian grammar is a mixture of American English and British English due to
at some of them:
For example, Australians would say ‘the team has scored the goal,’ and theBritish say ‘the team have scored the goal.’
number 1.200, they say ‘twelve hundred’ rather than ‘one thousand two hundred.’
In Southern Australia it is used following the British system, so they first say the‘river’ and then its name, like, for example, ‘River Darling.’ In other parts ofAustralia, people rather use the American system, so they would say ‘DarlingRiver.’
Vocabulary:
The first thing anyone notices is the difference in vocabulary Many everyday words arequite different in English dialects that it may sound like someone is speaking a
American and British English but has its own vocabulary as well.
When you, for example, use the word ‘sanga,’ if you are in Australia, everyone willknow what you are talking about In the UK, nontheless, people will look at you like
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Below, you may find some of the differences in vocabulary between British andAustralian words.
Australian EnglishBritish English
British Australian Lexicon of Words not used in British English:
Many of the words found in British Australian lexicons are derived from Aborigines.These include cobber (also known as a friend or battler in British English), a bludger,which means a person who relies on work done by others in British English.
Computer keyboards:
Australians use American keyboards for their computers and keyboards American andAustralian keyboards use punctuation symbols in different places than British key-
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While looking at the differences in Australian and British English accents appear to bethe most apparent difference between the two English languages At Talkaru we havenative teachers from Australia, the UK, the USA and Canada.
tralian English has many resemblances with American English as well
To conclude, due to the later colonisation of Australia by the British, Australian Englishis more similar to British English than American English Later the American accent be-came popular in Australia, affecting their language, which resulted in Australian Eng-lish looking like a mix of British and American English However, this is not entirely
pronun-ciation of words.