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Strine
was widely associated with Broad Australian speech and the "Strine" style traditionally linked to outback and rural Australian identity Strine, also spelled Stryne ( ), is a colloquial term referring to the Broad Australian English accent and stereotypical forms of Australian English. The term is commonly associated with strongly nasal vowel pronunciations, extensive use of slang, vowel shifts, elision of syllables, and speech patterns traditionally linked to working-class, rural, and "ocker" Australian identity. Broad Australian English occupies one end of the Australian accent continuum, contrasting with Cultivated Australian speech at the opposite end and General Australian in the middle. Someone who speaks Strine is called an Ocker. The term was coined in 1964 when the accent was the subject of humorous columns published in the Sydney Morning Herald from the mid-1960s. The term is a syncope, derived from a shortened phonetic rendition of the pronunciation of the word "Australian" in an exaggerated Broad Australian accent, drawing upon the tendency of this accent to run syllables together in a form of liaison. Recent generations have seen a comparatively smaller proportion of the population speaking with the Broad sociocultural variant, which differs from General Australian in its phonology.…
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was widely associated with Broad Australian speech and the "Strine" style traditionally linked to outback and rural Australian identity Strine, also spelled Stryne ( ), is a colloquial term referring to the Broad Australian English accent and stereotypical forms of Australian English. The term is commonly associated with strongly nasal vowel pronunciations, extensive use of slang, vowel shifts, elision of syllables, and speech patterns traditionally linked to working-class, rural, and "ocker" Australian identity. Broad Australian English occupies one end of the Australian accent continuum, contrasting with Cultivated Australian speech at the opposite end and General Australian in the middle. Someone who speaks Strine is called an Ocker. The term was coined in 1964 when the accent was the subject of humorous columns published in the Sydney Morning Herald from the mid-1960s. The term is a syncope, derived from a shortened phonetic rendition of the pronunciation of the word "Australian" in an exaggerated Broad Australian accent, drawing upon the tendency of this accent to run syllables together in a form of liaison. Recent generations have seen a comparatively smaller proportion of the population speaking with the Broad sociocultural variant, which differs from General Australian in its phonology.…
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