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The document discusses features of Australian English pronunciation and grammar including use of plural 'yous', attributing gender to inanimate objects, preference for 'who' over 'whom', use of 'me' instead of 'I/my', use of 'ol' instead of 'old', frequent use of '-ing', deletion of 'have' as 'I've', replacement of 'shall' with 'will', omission of auxiliary 'have', use of 'was' instead of 'were' in past tense, and increased use of 'gotten'.

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Syntax

The document discusses features of Australian English pronunciation and grammar including use of plural 'yous', attributing gender to inanimate objects, preference for 'who' over 'whom', use of 'me' instead of 'I/my', use of 'ol' instead of 'old', frequent use of '-ing', deletion of 'have' as 'I've', replacement of 'shall' with 'will', omission of auxiliary 'have', use of 'was' instead of 'were' in past tense, and increased use of 'gotten'.

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SYNTAX (basta naka ___ kay I yaw

yaw ra)
Australian English
Gday Mate! Let’s chuck some prawns and snags on the Barbie. Wanna a VB
Tommo/scotto/Robbo/Micky/Gunny?
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 Particularly in focus here is the vernacular (non standard) varieties and features of AE.

Pronouns
 Colloquial Australian English has the plural second person pronoun forms that have
become ubiquitous/universal. I.e. Yous and You guys
 A striking feature is to attribute gender with animate and inanimate nouns.
I.e. She can refer to a car or boat. ‘er (her) can refer to a leg of lamb (chuck ‘er on the
barbie)
 The use of whom is almost non existent. Most tend to favour who.
 The use of “me” instead of “I” or “my”. ‘Me, Jim and Leah’ or ‘Jim, Leah and me’.
‘He was angry at me scoring a goal’ instead of ‘He was angry at my scoring a goal.’
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Nouns and noun Phrases
 A common feature is to use ‘old’ otherwise pronounced as ‘ol’. ie. I went down to the ol
river yesterday.

Verbs and Verb Phrases


 Frequent use of –ing as a progressive indicator of something. ‘I am enjoying my yoga
classes. Top stuff that!’
 The frequent deletion of have as “I’ve”. ‘I only been there a couple of times’
 The replacement of HAVE with OF after a modal verb. ‘I would of picked it up for you!’
 The replacement of SHALL with modal WILL in particular in a first person interrogative
‘Will I call a taxi?’ ‘Will I go get some milk?’
 Omission of auxiliary HAVE. ie. ‘I gotta go’ (I have to go), ‘I better get going’ (I have to
get going)
 Using WAS instead of WERE when referring to past tense sentences. ‘You was there!’,
‘Course they was’
 Increased use of GOTTEN in intransitive constructions. ‘She’s gotten really angry’, ‘He’s
gotten the beer and headin over to Thommos’
newmanenglishlang Follow. (2012, June 10). Australian English. Retrieved from
https://www.slideshare.net/mobile/newmanenglishlang/australian-english-13265579

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