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Great News from Lehmann released today....

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Well Nic i disagree with you as well as Elizabeth; I was not talking about Strine and i would say that if you speak Strine you are in a very small minority. The English i was talking about is our version of the Queens English and largely as it is spoken over most of Australia; which is well regarded as being almost uniform or nearly so anyway. I lived for 60 years in Sydney and now live in Queensland and have been travelling on business throughout Australia for about 40 years and am fairly unique in that i have visited all states of Australia and both islands of New Zealand several times. Really the variations i have encountered are quite small. Sydney talks a lot faster than anywhere else and i think this is due to its size and its London origins ( i have visited London several times as well). Here in Queensland we talk pretty slowly especially in the country and in Adeleaide they seem to have a more English accent than the rest. I know castle and caster as in Doncaster is pronounced differently in Melbourne and Sydney. But really i have not noticed much variation in the way people talk in Australia at all. The various types of Australian you mentioned are peope from different Australian states and not any particular variation in language. Sangropers Western Australia; Crow Eaters South Australia, Mexcians Victoria (south of the border) Banana Benders Queensland, Cockroaches are from New South Wales particularly Sydney. but Welsh i have not heard of; which doesn't mean it doesn't exist.  As far as LGB's instructions are concerned, i have no intention of doing anything like becoming a proof reader. The proof is in the pudding and i have taken a representative of LGB to court and i won the case on this very point in question.   Just to tell you a little bit more about my travels I have visited 13 countries in Europe, 11 in Asia, 7 in Oceana, 2 in North America including 12 of the Untited States and one in Central America (Mexico). I have actually kived in England, France, Northern Ireland, Germany, Singapore as well as Australia. My wife and i are houseswappers of some experience. Rgds Ian
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