Hi Meryl, link didn't work but anyway in a word- well two - Radio and TV . Do you remember early radio & tv presenters had to have posh English accents . Cheers Sally ________________________________ From: Meryl Yost <merylp(a)tasfamily.net.au&gt; Sent: Saturday, 9 November 2019 6:59 PM To: AUS-Tasmania(a)rootsweb.com <AUS-Tasmania(a)rootsweb.com&gt; Subject: [AUS-Tas] ABC News: Why does the UK have more accents than Australia? Interesting article. 8-) https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.abc... an-australia/10755972 If you think of your favourite British TV shows, one thing that stands out is the great variation in the way the actors sound. So why aren't Australians the same? Regards, Meryl Yost _______________________________________________ AUS-Tasmania Mailing List Website https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http:%2F%2Fsites.root... Contact Admin AUS-Tasmania-Admin(a)rootsweb.com _______________________________________________ Email preferences: https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2... Unsubscribe https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flists.r... Privacy Statement: https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fancstry... Terms and Conditions: https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fancstry... Rootsweb Blog: https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Frootsweb... RootsWeb is funded and supported by Ancestry.com and our loyal RootsWeb community

Pronunciation of cities and towns seems to be a problem with some ABC reporters- Cairns is routinely said as Cannes and Bairnsdale as Barnsdale. Alan McGilvray's melodic voice describing the cricket, plus a capacity for silence which allowed radio listeners to hear the Thwack of the ball. Sorry to be off topic... sort of! Chris -----Original Message----- From: Meryl Yost [mailto:merylp@tasfamily.net.au] Sent: Saturday, 9 November 2019 6:59 PM To: AUS-Tasmania(a)rootsweb.com Subject: [AUS-Tas] ABC News: Why does the UK have more accents than Australia? Interesting article. 8-) https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-10-26/why-does-britain-have-more-accents-th an-australia/10755972 If you think of your favourite British TV shows, one thing that stands out is the great variation in the way the actors sound. So why aren't Australians the same? Regards, Meryl Yost _______________________________________________ AUS-Tasmania Mailing List Website http://sites.rootsweb.com/~austashs/ Contact Admin AUS-Tasmania-Admin(a)rootsweb.com _______________________________________________ Email preferences: http://bit.ly/rootswebpref Unsubscribe https://lists.rootsweb.com/postorius/lists/aus-tasmania@rootsweb.com Privacy Statement: https://ancstry.me/2JWBOdY Terms and Conditions: https://ancstry.me/2HDBym9 Rootsweb Blog: http://rootsweb.blog RootsWeb is funded and supported by Ancestry.com and our loyal RootsWeb community

Perhaps one day there'll be online pronunciation guide for quick reference re AUS place names? It would be useful for those only fleetingly mentioning a place. (Though of course, serious researchers would automatically have sought out correct pronunciations independently.) But I'm ready to hop on the slightly off-topic platform re the frequent & proliferating media pronunciation of a place name that surely must be widely familiar to Australians: i.e. the pronunciation of Antarctica as "AN-Tarctica", rather than the etymologically sensible pronunciation, "Ant-ARC-tica". Now departing soapbox-- Joan -----Original Message----- From: Chris Kealy Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2019 10:59 AM To: aus-tasmania(a)rootsweb.com Subject: [AUS-Tas] Re: ABC News: Why does the UK have more accents than Australia? Pronunciation of cities and towns seems to be a problem with some ABC reporters- Cairns is routinely said as Cannes and Bairnsdale as Barnsdale. Alan McGilvray's melodic voice describing the cricket, plus a capacity for silence which allowed radio listeners to hear the Thwack of the ball. Sorry to be off topic... sort of! Chris -----Original Message----- From: Meryl Yost [mailto:merylp@tasfamily.net.au] Sent: Saturday, 9 November 2019 6:59 PM To: AUS-Tasmania(a)rootsweb.com Subject: [AUS-Tas] ABC News: Why does the UK have more accents than Australia? Interesting article. 8-) https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-10-26/why-does-britain-have-more-accents-th an-australia/10755972 If you think of your favourite British TV shows, one thing that stands out is the great variation in the way the actors sound. So why aren't Australians the same? Regards, Meryl Yost _______________________________________________ AUS-Tasmania Mailing List Website http://sites.rootsweb.com/~austashs/ Contact Admin AUS-Tasmania-Admin(a)rootsweb.com _______________________________________________ Email preferences: http://bit.ly/rootswebpref Unsubscribe https://lists.rootsweb.com/postorius/lists/aus-tasmania@rootsweb.com Privacy Statement: https://ancstry.me/2JWBOdY Terms and Conditions: https://ancstry.me/2HDBym9 Rootsweb Blog: http://rootsweb.blog RootsWeb is funded and supported by Ancestry.com and our loyal RootsWeb community _______________________________________________ AUS-Tasmania Mailing List Website http://sites.rootsweb.com/~austashs/ Contact Admin AUS-Tasmania-Admin(a)rootsweb.com _______________________________________________ Email preferences: http://bit.ly/rootswebpref Unsubscribe https://lists.rootsweb.com/postorius/lists/aus-tasmania@rootsweb.com Privacy Statement: https://ancstry.me/2JWBOdY Terms and Conditions: https://ancstry.me/2HDBym9 Rootsweb Blog: http://rootsweb.blog RootsWeb is funded and supported by Ancestry.com and our loyal RootsWeb community

Hi all, I'm looking for records after 1900 on Ernest Henry DAFT, born 21/2/1900, Mathinna, Tas Parents Rosina nee FRITCHLEY, father William Henry DAFT. I have * ed the records I would like to see, if possible His mother was later Rose PEARSON of 20 Portland St Launceston. * death of his father William Henry Daft,? A marriage in 1908 on familysearch, no image, lists a widowed Rose Daft marrying Charles Pearson in Mathinna but she has different parents (?) *remarriage of Rosina nee Fritchley? Or reason why familysearch has Clark as her parents? Ernest had at least two brothers, William Albert Richard Daft b 1896, Ronald Laurence DAFT b 1902 and a sister Florrie Pearson b 1910 later m COOMES. ? Her mother registered her, as Pearson nee Daft, but said she had only 1 living male child? Is this the right Rose Daft? * any other births to Rose/Rosina Fritchley/Daft/Pearson ? * marriages of Ernest or his siblings * death of Rose/Rosina Ernest Daft enlisted in Zeehan in 1917 saying he was 19, his records appear to be incomplete and a bit mangled but he was demobilised in August 1919. He then reappears in the Wimmera, Victoria, in St Arnaud in 1934. Electoral Rolls list him in 1934, 36 and 1942 (I have not viewed these in full) * Can anyone check address on Electoral Rolls and see if there is a wife with him? Or if he appears later on anywhere else? A burial on Find a Grave, for Jan 1992 in Ouyen, Victoria is probably his. Thanks in anticipation Cheers Sally ________________________________