I always wanted to ask an Australian this. What is the name of the accent most of you talk with? Because to Americans, it sounds British. Maybe a little Cockney too. But closer to general British than Cockney. Does that make sense? When Joan Rivers used to host the "Tonight Show" on NBC from 1983 to 1986, she had Lynn Redgrave once. And she told Redgrave she heard the Australian accent is basically from an area in England. She may have said Penzance. I just looked up Penzance. And it says that it is a town in Cornwall, off the lower West tip of the UK. Is that true? It's from that town? Or maybe another? I only learned by the time I got to HS, that I actually talk with what's called a Midwestern accent. Most people in the US speak English with a Midwest accent. I think the Southern accent is the next numerous. And there are variations in the Southern accent. There is supposedly and upper class Southern accent. People used to say that Rosalynn Carter talked with an upper-class Southern accent. She was a very nice person though, Mrs. Carter. She fought for the rights of the mentally ill and mentally disabled.
Oh it's an Australian accent. It can be pretty thick but influenced by the English although these days a lot of Aussies talk like the Americans that they see on TV. Battery is a two syllable word but some people say it as a three syllable word, for example. Sometimes you wouldn't notice how thick the Aussie accent is but if you put a whole lot of people from different places in a room you certainly notice it. Basically Australia is a country of immigrants since 200 years ago so people from all over the place.
