From: Adam Flinton 

Don Hills wrote:

> In article ,
> Steve Ewing  wrote:
>
>>=====
>>A NZ'er moves to Australia and is embarassed by his nationality. He is
>>particularly aware of his unmistakable accent. One day he walks into a
>>shop and asks for "five dollars worth of FUSH and CHUPS".
>
>
> No, it's the Aussies who have the poor pronunciation. They say "FEESH and
> CHEEPS". I still recall my first trip to Australia, My first experience of
> the accent difference was when I got into a taxi at the airport and the
> driver said, "Deed yew have a nice treep?"
>


Nah mate they say "FEESH and CHEEPS ???????"

AQI (Australian Questioning Intonation).

Adam

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