The wonderful thread on accents, idioms and dialects.

Yeah, the Australian Accent tends to be rather abrupt with vowels. Canberra being "Can-bruh", Brisbane being "Briz-bin" and Melbourne "Mel-bun". I reckon it's because the base of the accent is from a mix of 18th century Cockney and Aboriginal dialects.

Which part of Germany has that thing where they pronounce "-er" in the end of words as "-a"? Or is it an Austrian thing?

My particular accent (not sure of the name, but I live in the Southwest US) tends to skip unnecessary consonants.

I.e. Mountain sounds like "mou'n" unless I enunciate. I also tend to borrow words of other dialects that I hear a lot, like, after listening to Total Biscuit enough, I start using British curse words a lot. Also, "farce".

Aussie person here XD

About 98% of the time my accent is Australian, but sometimes I'll unknowingly switch to an American accent. Not to mention that almost anything I read in my head has an American accent, unless the text uses words or spellings exclusive to Aussies or Brits (nappy rather than diaper, for instance).

I love British accents, and Jamaican accents sound really good too IMO.

Well I can confirm that my dialect does this along with a lot of other stuff, but there are probably various that do, especially in the southwest because...uh...there's some scientific reason but I can't really translate it because that's a really complicated word? Let's just say all other parts of german-speaking countries had their language change in a particular way while those parts didn't, which is why they're so different. But yeah, if a word ends with -er here, it usually changes to -a, like oder->oda, sicher->sicha etc.

British Accents and Irish accent dear merciful christ so adorable. I want to marry those accents.