Noice or Not Noice

Noice or Not Noice

From https://www.wikihow.com/Speak-With-an-Australian-Accent Noice is the Australization of the word that the rest of the English-speaking world pronounces (more or less) as “nice”. See previous blog post entitled, “How (Not) to Speak Australian” for a link to a...
Pseudoscience: Don’t Get Fooled Again

Pseudoscience: Don’t Get Fooled Again

“The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage”. This is from Mark Russell, the famous satirist and “scientific” theorist.  Another theory, ours, is that Jupiter, the ‘romantic’ gravitational ‘partner’ of...
How (Not) to Speak Australian

How (Not) to Speak Australian

G’day, mate. In case you didn’t know, that’s Australian for good day, friend. However, to our untrained ears, as Americans, it sounds like, “good eye might.” More like “good ear might” since we’re talking about Australian accents. In the 1980s, Foster’s drink company...