Alcohol to blame for Australians funny accents: expert

Aussies with funny accents should blame it on the Foster's, says a Melbourne-based language expert. Dean Frenkel, of Victoria University, believes the quirky Australian dialect stems from early settlers' booze-filled conversations. "The Australian alphabet cocktail was spiked by alcohol," Frenkel says in Melbourne's The Age newspaper. "Our forefathers regularly got drunk together and, through their...