I love accents, I think it's interesting how Britain for instance can have so many for the size of it. The old English is lovely.

I am! As soon as I get there, I'm buying a new pair of ugg boots for best and getting an orange spray tan

Would you believe they let Jamie Carragher on Sky Sports as an analyst and they don't have subtitles so it beats me what he's saying half the time. I do get it when he says they are wairkin their socks off though.

Yes, many, many accents in Australia, not only regional differences but of course generational differences and urban/rural differences and differences according to country of origin if not born in Australia. I'm sure technology is having an influence on the sorts of differences OE mentions as well.

My eldest still sounds very English when she's talking to us. As soon as she's with friends or at work she's got the bloody awful American Valley Girl thing happening. I'd rather she spoke Australian.

Liverpool is great as I'm sure you know. The people are so down to earth and straight talking, they hold hearts of gold. They get a lot of stick in England do the Scousers, but they are good people!... Well apart from the scallys!

You'll fit right in then. Have you been practicing the lingo?

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Yep, I love the place and the people Molly. It feels like I never stop laughing when I'm over there, razor sharp and lightning fast wit. I'm really looking forward to living there.

There probably are, I have never heard a nice one though, they are very harsh and guttural.

Thank God for the demise of the Rising Terminal! Now, just get rid of the ubiquitous "around" that peppers PC speech these days and get to the point and I will be very happy. (please don't tell me "like" and "innit" have invaded the Aus accent/usage pool yet though.

'like' most definitely has.

My youngest two, who had very similar lives the past 5 years ( same school etc ) , one has an English accent and the other one can break into the most awful Australian drawl Its not often and I notice it comes out with certain mates, the words all roll into one..... awful.

Him moving to Melbourne has not changed that, maybe its just the girls doing the fake American girl thing

Aussie partner drops the drawl at home, he uses it at work, construction , its the only way they speak! Tradies in melb or qld seem to take great pride in it.

However once overseas, ( even if its just two weeks in LA) I notice when aussies see another aussie its bang on 'owyagoinmatenahyeah'. I just walk off

I think Australia has a class thing, eg. its very rare you bump into a Doctor or Specialist doing the drawl.

Melb accent to me never seems American, but its very common to hear a mix of greek/aussie, or aussie/asian accent. They to me typify Melbourne

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Really? Since the native English speakers over there hail from the UK through ancestry, I find that hard to believe, unless of course you've never heard a native English speaker from there. The guttural and harsh accent comes from the Dutch (Afrikaans speakers).

Maybe you're confusing guttural with diction or just trying a wind up.

Hahaaaa, yes I get lots of practice, living with Scouse Also, when we visited after our engagement, his nieces gave me a couple of 'how to speak Scouse' books and told me to brush up. Go 'ed girl!