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Australians have one of the most attractive accents in the world, according to a new study. More than 1000 Americans weighed in on their perceptions of different national and foreign accents using audio samples from the Speech Accent Archive created by George Mason University. The survey, conducted by souvenir plot company Highland Titles, determined Australians had the most attractive way of speaking in both females and males. Scottish accents came in second place followed by London and Irish accents. Interestingly, the Americans didn’t vote favourably of their own various accents, with the famous New York intonation landing the top spot for least attractive accent, followed by Boston in second place and American Midwestern in third. The study also voted on the beautiful accents, which saw Australian come in third place, after French and Scottish respectively. Australian also came in third place for the most romantic accent, losing to first place winner, French, followed by Spanish which came in spot two. However, the Australian accent jumped back up to second place for most charming accents, losing out this time to Scottish. Irish came in third place in this category. Australians and Americans have been equally surprised by the findings, with many sharing their shock online after the results were published recently. “Someone clearly deaf or Australian made this,” one US-based man commented. “Ironically they voted for the one group of people who don’t give a FUHH what people vote for,” another American remarked. “This is wild,” another scoffed. Aussies were just as confused, with many roasting the results of the survey.“As an Australian, y’all are f**ken lying mate wtf,” one teased. “Yeh fkn straya mate,” another laughed. As one stated: “US peeps are thinking Chris Hemsworth and Cate Blanchett… but none of those overseas mob have heard our county bogan accents.” “Guess they haven’t heard the bogan Aussie,” another agreed. More Coverage“Who put Australian in first place? I think most Australians would disagree,” one chipped in.Interestingly, online dating website eHarmony discovered Aussies perceive British English and French as the most attractive accents.A survey published by the dating website in August found

Celebrating “Star Wars Day” on May the Fourth is the result of a somewhat obvious pun taken way too far. Although the true birthday of Star Wars is debatable — it came out May 25, 1977, but the first novelization was released into the world on November 12, 1976 — we’ve all settled on May the Fourth because it sounds like “may the Force be with you.”While the roots of the actual holiday have some humble, grassroots fandom origins, the actual phrase’s beginnings are stranger than you might think. George Lucas eventually did settle on “may the Force be with you” as the “live long and prosper” of the galaxy far, far away, but it wasn’t always going to be this exact phrase — and some of the early alternatives might shock you.“May the Ashla be with you”George Lucas and Alec Guinness filming Star Wars in 1976.Sunset Boulevard/Corbis Historical/Getty ImagesAccording to numerous sources, but most notably, Star Wars: The Annotated Screenplays, in George Lucas’ second draft for Star Wars, he defined The Force of Others as “an energy field...that influenced the destiny of all living creatures.” This Force was split into two para-forces called “the Ashla” and “the Bogan.” At this point, the Jedi were called “The Jedi Bendu of the Ashla,” who fought against people who were down with the Bogan. Later, these concepts would become “the Light Side” and “the Dark Side.” However, the idea of the Ashla and the Bogan were eventually made canon in Star Wars

Rebels, when mysterious Force-creature called “the Bendu” (voiced by Doctor Who legend Tom Baker) referred to the Dark and Light Sides as “Ashla” and “Bogan.” From the point of view of the Bendu (who lived in “the middle”), these extremes were kind of silly. Overall, it’s nifty that the terms “Bendu,” “Bogan,” and “Ashla” were all reappropriated to be made canon eventually, but it's hard to imagine taking the original 1977 film seriously if Obi-Wan was trying to teach Luke the ways of the Ashla.“May the Force of others be with you”George Lucas, Empire director Irvin Kershner and Steven Spielberg in the late ‘80s.Mondadori Portfolio/Mondadori Portfolio/Getty ImagesThis one is a mouthful. As any good Star Wars aficionado knows, George Lucas mixed a variety of different religious, mythological, and philosophical concepts to give the faraway galaxy its spiritual context. Speaking to Lauret Bouzereua for The Annotated Screenplays, Lucas said: “I basically worked out a general theory for the Force, then I played with it. The more detail I went into, the more it detracted from the concept I was trying to put forward... it worked better as I got less specific... So the real essence was to try to deal with the Force but not be too specific about it.”Obviously, Lucas didn’t really take his own advice on that one, since The Phantom Menace leaned heavily into trying to explain the Force, a narrative burden the sequel films were subsequently saddled with, too. In Lucas’ earliest drafts, it looks like people

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