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AE 1159 - Pete's 2c: Can You Guess Which Language 'Kayak' Comes From?

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Australian English came from British settlement in Australia in the late 1700s. Originally there were lots of sort of lower class convicts that were coming from all different parts of Great Britain and from Ireland. So we effectively had a mix mash, right? A real diversity of dialects from Great Britain, a lot of different accents,.A lot of different slang and it was all kind of melting together in a melting pot in Australia. The currency lads and lasses ended up being influenced by one another more so than their parents and their dialects.

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