Talk:Western Australian English

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[edit] early comment

I say "bee-ar" for beer and I'm South Australian. I also think that useage of "crosswalk" might have something to do with the pedestrian lights in all directions at intersections all going off at the same time and allowing pedestrians to cross the road diagonally. What I can gather, it is a WA phenomenon (I first saw it in Perth) and it is only now starting to be picked up in other states - Frances 7/10/05

[edit] WA Only Schoolyard?

At my (WA) primary school, some words with a short 'e' vowel were pronounced as though it was an 'a'. Eg. the thing that was rung to get us back into class was a bell, pronounced to rhyme with "shall". This seems very persistent - I've noticed it among nieces and nephews in their primary years. Anyone know this from other places? Callophylla 11:47, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

I have to say, as a born-and-bred Sandgroper, that I've never noticed in WA. But I also hadn't noticed the "beer/bir/bee-ah" thing until it was mentioned here, so who knows? To avoid people people putting all kinds of whimsical stuff here, we really seen an academic-type reference.Grant65 | Talk 01:06, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
Fair comment, Grant65, but (1) this is the discussion page, not the article, so we can surely explore possible items for the article. And (2) we are searching for distinctive WA speech usages; any academic-type work will depend totally on information from "native speakers" such as ourselves. Schoolyard English is distinctive in many places, and this one might just be part of distinctive WA speech. Callophylla 12:50, 27 October 2006 (UTC)