why do english and australian accents sound similar
Australian English Australian English began to diverge from British English after the arrival of the First Settlers who set up the Colony of New South Wales in 1788. Their dialect was recognised as being different from British English by 1820. It arose from the intermingling of early settlers from a great variety of mutually intelligible dialectal regions of the British Isles and quickly developed into a distinct variety of English,[4] which differs considerably from other varieties of English in vocabulary, accent, pronunciation, register, grammar and spelling.