G'day mate: 'Lazy' Australian accent caused by "alcoholic slur' of heavy-drinking early settlers

A newspaper article reporting on an opinion piece written by a communications professor at Melbourne's Victoria University suggesting that the Australian accent resulted from the slurring of speech of early (drunk) settlers. [Published on 10-27-2015]

Posted by Kara Becker on November 2, 2015

Tags:
Ideology;
Australian English;
Stigma

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