Irish Central

60 Minutes Australia investigates as two Aussie women suddenly develop Irish accents

Two Australian women who developed Irish accents despite never being to Ireland have told their bizarre stories to TV news program 60 Minutes Australia. Angie Yen and Kate Baggs documented their ...
The Weekly Times

What’s that accent? Screens are changing how Generation Alpha Aussie kids speak

Gen Z TikToker Vivian Peterson recently went viral after sharing her theory on what she calls the “Gen Alpha accent”. In her video, which has around four million views, she noted how many Gen Alphas ...
Newsweek

Australian Woman Wakes up With New ‘Irish Accent’ Days After Surgery

Australian Angie Yen has been speaking with a new Irish accent for two weeks in what's suspected to be a case of foreign accent syndrome. Yen, aged 27, is originally from Taiwan but has lived in ...
The New York Times

Disappearing Slang and Cultural Variants: How Australian English Is Changing

Readers reflect on the country’s many different accents. By Yan Zhuang The Australia Letter is a weekly newsletter from our Australia bureau. Sign up to get it by email. Last week, I wrote about ...