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1788

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1820

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1850

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1880

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1914-1918

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1939-1945

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1973

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1975

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1979

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2006

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Australian Female Voice

born: Australia
grew up: regional NSW
cultural heritage: Anglo Celtic

Australian Standard English

Photo used with permission.

Australian Female Voice

born: Australia
grew up: regional NSW
cultural heritage: Anglo Celtic

Australian Standard English

Mr Luscombe

born: 1873
age: 82 (at recording)
grew up: QLD 
listen for "new", "morning", "line", "pommy"

Older way of saying "new"

Mr Luscombe is telling a funny story about a friend who tried to use a live frog as bait while fishing.

Photo courtesy of National Library of Australia

Mr Luscombe

born: 1873
age: 82 (at recording)
grew up: QLD 
listen for "new", "morning", "line", "pommy"

Older way of saying "new"

Mr Luscombe is telling a funny story about a friend who tried to use a live frog as bait while fishing.

Mrs David

born: 1890
grew up: NSW
listen for: "cabin", "hole"

Mrs David recounts an incident where her cabin was nearly set alight by a man dropping a cigarette into a petrol tank. Listen to the first vowel sound in "cabin". This is an older form of this vowel. Also the vowel sound in "hole" is not pronounced in this way anymore.

Audio courtesy of Hazel Souter, photo by Rudolph Buchner ca1913 courtesy of State Library of NSW (Photo does not depict speaker, but Louise Carbasse or Louise Lovely.)

Mrs David

born: 1890
grew up: NSW
listen for: "cabin", "hole"

Mrs David recounts an incident where her cabin was nearly set alight by a man dropping a cigarette into a petrol tank. Listen to the first vowel sound in "cabin". This is an older form of this vowel. Also the vowel sound in "hole" is not pronounced in this way anymore.

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