But all his dreams broke when he suddenly heard this loud wild noise again. This time he didn`t run off, but still, he tried to stay in the bushes near the shadows of the trees. Carefully, like a small child discovering the world he moved towards the light. And what he saw took his breath away: there was a village, but it was all burning and the people were sleeping an eternal sleep everywhere he looked. Some of them were seriosly injured, but alive. So he dared to sneek closer and take a better look. One old man, who was still moving a bit, saw the soldier and waved sadly his hand. The youth climbed slowly over some dead bodies and sat near the injured person. "What happened?" he asked "Who are these terrifiing creatures?" The old man pointed one of his fingers to the north. The soldier took a look and saw an old wooden church that wasn`t swallowed by the river of fire yet. "What`s in there?" he said, but no answer was given. The old man was dead.
(,,winner"), interesting (,,ineresting")) we are dealing with = T-deletion · Schedule, hostile and some other words are pronounced depending on social variation and region. (Great degree of influence from AmEng) · Again(st), sometimes /gen/, sometimes /geIn/ · Been [bin] · Shone [sho:n] follows BrEng variant · Tomato [tomæto] different from both AmEng and BrEng Grammar: · Younger geneation follows AmEng forms and older BrEng forms. · Canadians use the Q tag ,,eh?" · Sneek Snuk · Dive Dove Vocabulary: · General trend towards American vocabulary, but not fully, therefore there would be both variants in the dictionary. Candy=Sweet, for example. · They developed a vocabualry that they needed to use in a special environment. The environment was different from Britain/US. · Indian language borrowings (ex: moose) 12) Australian English (peculiarities of pronounciation, grammar, vocabulary) Pronounciation: