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Holly: ISABEL? Don't DO it! You'll be so sorry!
Val: Let me talk -
Val: Isabel, honey, is your mom home? NO? We're coming over.
Gramma Evie: What's going on?
Holly: One of my friends is threatening to...CUT HER OWN BANGS!
Gramma Evie: GO! GO! GO!
Such an interesting topic. I can usually pick NZ accents, even from people who have been in Aussie since childhood which really pisses (one meaning:)) them off. But I totally agree with the flattening of the Yank accent. We do get inundated with American TV (and I don’t watch it) much but we are breeding a whole tribe of Aussies actors who can take it off to the satisfaction of the American public.
I’m also pretty good on S Africans, in part due to my husband working with them for some years.
“Fanny” - wow, such a divide. In America an innocent reference to the bum/bottom/gluteous maximus- in Aussie a reference to something much more intimate and unmentionable.