Linguistic Miscellany Thread

[bradrn]

Okay, I don't know how I got it in my head that he was Australian - lol. Maybe the "Ozzy" part.

I find it quite difficult to imagine confusing an Aussie accent with a Birmingham accent. (Though I suppose songs are always a bit tricky.)

Considering that I have no idea in my head of what a Birmingham accent sounds like...

Well, to be honest, I don’t really know either. But it certainly sounds nothing like an Australian one!

[jal]

I think the only US accents I can recognize are AAVE and white Southern drawls. Everything else sounds just like GA to me.

This.

Key clues to telling apart NAE varieties other than Southern or AAVE ones is (...)

But that needs a specialist's ear. Many British accents can be told apart by the way they sound, even if you can't really make out what's being said. Same with AAVE and Southern, they just sound different. Whether certain vowels are rounded or unrounded, or certain vowels merged etc., doesn't really affect the way the speech sounds, hencemy inability to distinguish them.


JAL