Talk:Western Australian English

message: 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)
replies: text: 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)
replies: text:  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)
thread_title:  WA Only Schoolyard? 

message: I do wonder as to if some of those words are really only in WA. As I'm a NZer (never been to WA, or even oz!) and lots of those words are familiar to me & I recognise them straight away as I would use them. For instance verge, bathers, & munted etc....   Mathmo Talk 14:13, 18 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  WA Only? 

message: We (WA) use "dent" as short for indentation;l people in the east say "dint" and even sometimes spell it with the i. Why is this most common difference between the western variant not mentioned here? I'd add it if I could find a source.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 101.112.32.222 (talk) 14:55, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dent and Dint 

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message: No reference is given and in my experience it isn't prominent in WA English. It isn't mentioned in Australian English#Regional_variation. 130.60.71.123 (talk) 14:19, 19 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reference for l-vocalisation? 

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message: I've removed this:
:"...or munted, referring to an object which is misshaped or unsightly"
because the Oxford Dictionary says the word is used similarly in New Zealand. --Meticulo (talk) 10:36, 7 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Munted?

message: I've been naughty and added yet more original research. Does anyone have access to the ABC publication A guide to the pronunciation of Australian place names to substantiate my claim about the different pronunciations of 'Coogee' in Sydney and Perth? Thanks -- Meticulo (talk) 10:36, 7 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Coogee pronunciation

message: I remember a news report when the Joondalup line opened about the train announcements pronouncing it as Glenda(lock) versus Glenda(low) -- Mtearle (talk) 11:57, 5 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Glendalough pronunciation

message: Sounds a lot like bundle to me. Splićanin (talk) 16:11, 25 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Boondy 

message: You have added the image request template to this article but I'm struggling to imagine what sort of an image would be applicable here, given that the article is on a language and not a physical thing. Could you please elaborate as to what kind of image you have in mind to help the Western Australian members here potentially take or produce one? Calistemon (talk) 04:06, 14 May 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Never seen one (that I recognised as such), never even knew there was such a thing as Western Australian English until you added it to the WA picture request category. I will ask some "true" Western Australians for help and see if they can come up with something. Access to the book Words from the West: A Glossary of Western Australian Terms could potentially help. Anyway, thanks for explaining, maybe we can find something that fits. Calistemon (talk) 10:41, 14 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image request