Word: rickards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Rickard says he is surprised at the number of people who confuse his accent with a British Cockney or a Danish twang, especially considering that there is little difference in the accent across regions...
...People from the bush," sometimes speak with more of a drawl than in the city, says Rickard, who is an urban dweller and native Australian himself...
...Rickard, who is filling the visiting chair of Australian Studies and teaching History 1841: "The Last Frontier': Australian Cultural History," says he is enjoying teaching Australian history from a new perspective and to a new audience...
...does seem to me," Rickard says, "that America in some ways, because it's such a big country and such an important country, America is rather insular...
...Rickard says that life at Harvard is much more formal than that at Monash University in Melbourne, most visibly among the Faculty, who sport ties instead of t-shirts...