Aussie pronounciation

I'm keep ing a running list of homophones caused by Aussie pronounciations. (Note: You could also say ''homonym'' -- but ''homophone'' is technically more correct; see http://rogersreference.com/rrhomonyms.htm). The earliest one I discovered is that Aussies pronounce ''pawn shop'' like ''porn shop'' -- which can lead to some embarrassing misunderstandings (e.g. ''Hey, ma -- I'm taking my guitar down to the porn shop.'')

The lastest one, which came up at work a few days ago, is when someone was saying the Brisbane Lions sports team [no, I don't remember which sport!] had a spin-off team called the ''Brisbane Roars''. Except another co-worker kept thinking ''raws'' -- like ''raw meat''.

So: If you want to affect a convincing Aussie accent, ''law'' becomes ''lawr'' (as in ''lore''/''folklore''); a lion's roar becomes ''rawr'', and ''pawn'' becomes ''porn''.


--GG