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Prof: Drinking Made ‘Lazy’ Aussie Accent

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“Our forefathers regularly got drunk together.”

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The “lazy” Australian accent was caused by drinking, not a mix of dialects, according to a University of Melbourne communications expert. “The Australian alphabet cocktail was spiked by alcohol,” Dean Frenkel wrote in a case for teaching rhetoric at The Age.

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