![]() ![]() "We have our dialects and as it happens, quite by coincidence, it is the best, most colourful, most inventive English dialect on the planet." ![]() "They now say there is no such thing as English, the English language doesn't exist, there are only Englishes, only dialects. "When you trace the story of Australian English from 1788 to the present day, you find yourself actually tracing the story of the whole nation," Richards told 702 ABC Sydney's Dominic Knight.īeyond the influences and movements that shaped our use and understanding of English, Richards said we first needed to consider our concept of language. The English language arrived in Australia a little more than 200 years ago and since that time it has been levelled, sculpted and adapted to give Australians a specific dialect. Tracing the changes in Australian English from the First Fleet to present day is really about exploring the story of the nation, author Kel Richards says. ![]()
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