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From Clean Up: For the non-philologists, there is something called the Great vowel shift of the 15th-16th centuries, where all European languages shifted their vowels consistently in a way described by the Grimms. This article, on the other hand, is original research, alledging that the shift of the ash vowel in Australian toward an epsilon is part of a new shift. Linguistically, this is nonsense. Geogre 23:17, 10 Jul 2004 (UTC)

  • If you look at the page history, this was originally an ad for some guy's accent improvement business. (See [1]) If there was any actual information here i'd suggest merging with a page on Indian or Australian accents, but there isn't, so Delete. Pyrop 00:55, Jul 11, 2004 (UTC)
  • The original version of this page was signed by some-one who seems to be giving Indians elocution lessons (presumably charging) and assuring them it will improve their business skills if they speak like a 1950s BBC Presenter - I'm foreign, speak perfect English (I'm told)and have no business skills at all: Delete. Giano 10:38, 11 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • Delete. A discussion on Australian and Indian accents is far better covered in other topics. When I searched for Southern vowel shift on google, it came up with quite a few sites talking about the vowel shift in the Southern US. Perhaps it might be better to replace this with a stub detailing that. Jamincan
[ Moved from VfD page; no timestamp, so may be out of order --Jerzy(t) 14:35, 2004 Jul 12 (UTC)]
  • Delete. Of course languages are constantly changing all over the world, but even the title of the article is unhelpfully vague and isn't all that indicative of the contents. Southern what? The article is presented clumsily out of context and what is intelligible is badly argued without citation. As well there are two unexplained acronyms which make this whole thing look like a shoddy cut and paste from somewhere else. Fire Star 20:31, 13 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • Appears to be original research at best. -- Cyrius|✎ 01:50, 14 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • Delete. As one whose sub-major was linguistics, I can say that while the Great Vowel Shift has taken on some unique features in Australia, there is no such thing as a "Southern vowel shift." Not that I have heard of, anyway. Not only does this seem to be original research, it is very poorly written. David Cannon 02:02, 14 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • Delete. Utter rubbish. Lacrimosus 02:28, 14 Jul 2004 (UTC)
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