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I’ve always wondered how Australians manage to turn two-letter, monosyllabic “no” into “nairyoo”.
by psyc 5y ago
I’ve always wondered how Australians manage to turn two-letter, monosyllabic “no” into “nairyoo”.
- lebuffon 5y agoThis is just an observation but the Australian and some British pronunciations of "no" bear an interesting similarity to the sound of "nij" (no) in some Dutch dialects. Perhaps the have a common source? Old Saxon?
- CRConrad 5y agoOr Frisian, or perhaps even... Uh, "Anglic", or whatever the language of the Angles is called?
- danans 5y agoIt follows the general Australian pattern of stretching single vowel sounds into diphthongs, or breaking them up into 2 parts Consider for example the Australian pronunciations of 'late' and 'beer'.
- floren 5y agoOr New Zealanders: "noyy"