Interesting Documentary

On the flight from Melbourne to Hong Kong I watched an interesting documentary about how Australians developed their unique accent. According to the documentary, after the first fleets arrived from England and other people migrated to Australia, the children of these immigrants created this unique accent which set them apart from their parents. It was amazing to see that up until the 60’s and 70’s media outlets only wanted to hire television announcers and such that had British accents. You really didn’t hear people on the television with a true Australian accent.

For a country so large, the variation of the accent is not there like it is in the U.S. But for size, I don’t think any English speaking country has the accent variation that the UK has. It is quite amazing.