Adelaide with its graceful buildings and abundant parkland is sometimes described as the most British, even English, of Australian cities.
Melbourne has a lively British expat community. Migrants born in the UK make up the largest overseas-born population group in Melbourne, accounting for 4.3 per cent of Melbourne's total population. British expats living in Melbourne love: the year-round sporting calendar which includes a public holiday for a horse race.
English Australians, also known as Anglo-Australians, are Australians whose ancestry originates wholly or partly in England. In the 2021 census, 8,385,928 people, or 33% of the Australian population, stated that they had English ancestry (whether sole or partial).
The majority of Australians speak English as a first or other language, however a significant number of people also speak languages other than English.
Ozzie. Meaning: (Noun) An alternative way to spell and pronounce Aussie, also short for Australian.
Seppo is most often used by Australians and New Zealanders. It's mostly used to contemptuously refer to Americans, those bloody seppos. It can be a serious or humorous insult.
bloke – man or guy
A stereotype of a typical Australian man: loves beer, sport and barbies.
The most common verbal greeting is a simple “Hey”, “Hello”, or “Hi”. Some people may use Australian slang and say “G'day” or “G'day mate”. However, this is less common in cities. Many Australians greet by saying “Hey, how are you?”.
Australian English is most similar to British English in spelling and sentence construction, although its accent and vocabulary are very distinct from the UK.
In Australia, 22.3% of people used a language other than English at home in 2021. Australia's language statistics show the proportion of the population who use a language at home other than English.
There is a myriad of reasons why people choose to move to Australia. Many have fallen in love with the outdoors lifestyle after holidaying down under, while others look to offer their young family better opportunities in life.
Australian English can be described as a new dialect that developed as a result of contact between people who spoke different, mutually intelligible, varieties of English. The very early form of Australian English would have been first spoken by the children of the colonists born into the early colony in Sydney.
After maintaining the highest standard of community well-being for seven consecutive years, it comes as no surprise that the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) cemented itself as the best place to live in Australia.
On the surface, Australians and Brits may seem to have much in common: language, heritage, a love of cricket and rugby, foreign travel, and dry humour. But there are inevitable cultural differences between the Brits and Aussies – many of which both sides can learn from.
But the Australian accents are different from the accents of America, or Canada, or New Zealand because those accents were created from kids growing up in those places with different communities and histories. Accents are all about the people we spend time with when we are young.
While some Australian speakers would pronounce “no” as a diphthong, starting on “oh” as in dog and ending on “oo” as in put, others begin with an unstressed “a” (the sound at the end of the word “sofa”), then move to the “oh” and then “oo”.
Certainly if you're in the US, your mother is your “mom” – short for “mommy” and in the UK, Australia and New Zealand it's “mum” – shortened from “mummy”.
Australian goodbye is “Hooroo”; sometimes they even “cheerio” like British people, a UK slang word.
Contributor's comments: The meaning of Bubs I grew up with is a baby, or quite often the youngest member of the family is called "bubs" from an older sibling.
Australians use a couple of other colloquial words for a hen's egg. The Australian English word googie or goog is an informal term that dates from the 1880s. It derives from British dialect goggy, a child's word for an egg. A closer parallel to the jocular bum nut, however, is the word cackleberry.
Stunner. To start off with a really good all-rounder, “stunner” is a common one that you can use. Most commonly, stunner is used to describe a person—often not to their face. So, someone who is particularly attractive would be a stunner: “I met this total stunner the other night,” for example.