Quote Originally Posted by Sandaro View Post
Filum, love it!! I got relations from the South Coast Nsw who say it that way too. You know the Monaro (Mon Air Oh) district
The old man was Armidale then Sydney and then South Coast so guess that's where he watched his filums. Mon-air-oh is supposedly correct. Mon-ar-oh stuck!

Quote Originally Posted by axistr View Post
What grinds my gears is the covered area behind the house it's a pergola, not a bloody (per-goat-ter). or the garage, not (gar- age).
Per-gol-a vs pur-guh-luh I here this on USA TV shows. I have not heard Per-goat-ter. But maybe a pagoda "puh-goh-duh"

Quote Originally Posted by damienengland View Post
In car speak, I've noticed that blower is not often recognised anymore, it seems to just be supercharger now.
I hadn't noticed, but I will be listening for that now.

Quote Originally Posted by damienengland View Post
I ..... we did an exercise using the word 'beer'. He was correct, i say 'be-ah' and cant easily force a hard r at the end of the word.
I have noticed that with Victorian's with the word "here" they (maybe not all) say "he-ah" where as I'd say "h-ear".