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How is "route" is pronounced in Australia?
What is the most common pronunciation of "route" in Australia?
From https://dictionary.cambridge.org/pronunciation/english/route
UK/ruːt/
US/ruːt//raʊt/
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They question or expression
This is a conversation between two girls I heard in audio. Bride and her mate were talking about the groom.
Lorrain look what we both are doing. We're picking on poor Des to pieces the night before the wedding.
My question here is which one is…
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Meaning of "don't you ever let up"
In a TV show I heard this:
An asian girl comes in a park. A girl in a group of friends says "Look what the cat dragged in". A boy(her boy friend) in the group says "don't you ever let up.
What does he mean " Let up"
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Turned/might have turned
I heard in an australian tv show a lady says:
If my mother was alive today, she turn in a grave to see the way i am treated.
So the question here is shouldn't she had said: she might have turned in a grave.
Or they both make the same sense?
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