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107. Messing Around With Accents and Voices

Luke's ENGLISH Podcast - Learn British English with Luke Thompson

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The Importance of a Thong

If you do cockney, this ball is here. Because a lot of them went over to Australia. It's kind of similar. So if you start doing this for us, you can kind of move into Australia quite seamlessly. We're speaking in an Australian accent. If he says flip flops, you know, he's English, you know why? because they call them thongs. This is very important, actually. If you go to London, if you say, can I have a thong, please? That means an item of underwear. But if you go to Australia, a thong means a flip flop,. Means the kind of shoe you wear on the beach or

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