[News24] Johannesburg - The Australian accent is a result of drunk ancestors who passed their slurred speech to their children.Dean Frenkel, a lecturer in public speaking and communication at Victoria University in Melbourne, wrote in an opinion in The Age newspaper that the Australian voice arose from a colonial mixture of British, Irish and German settlers and indigenous people.
"Aussie-speak developed in the early days of colonial settlement from a cocktail of English, Irish, Aboriginal and German -- before another mystery influence was slipped into the mix.