Term Papers on Australian Dialect

Term Paper Title	Australian Dialect
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Australian Dialect

After the discovery of Australia by Britain a few small colonies sprung up. The natives of the land, the Aborigines, were ignored and not thought off as a people. This is similar to the colonization of America. Around 1786, the social state in Britain was becoming unstable. Many prisons were full and the working classes were near revolt. William Pitt, the leader of Britain at the time, saw many eligible storage places in Africa, but decided on the untamed outback of Australia instead. Unlike British propaganda may have inferred, the voyage to Botany Bay was very pleasant on prisoners. This was no concentration camp, or even all that much of a punishment. The first boats to land upon the rocky shores of this new penal colony opened up bottles of rum and proceeded to christen their new abode. The education of these prisoners and their jailors sent to settle was little more than then knowledge of how to read, write, and basic mathematics. This provoked new colloquialisms from slang terms used between friends. Although they use Queens English, it is a sloppy, slurred version incorporating a lot of slang.

Even though Australia was meant to be a penal colony, it helped out a lot more prisoners than condemn them. Many pilgrims became farmers. After the discovery of such commodities as gold, silver, coal, copper, and whale oil, several Botany Bay colonists became very ...

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