Nodder/Fixie Skidder

Yeah but I'm right - if they're not Aussie it's HRT, not AQI.

Calling it AQI propagates the fallacy that HRT comes only from British/American teenagers who watched Neighbours and started talking like the Aussies do.

Dialect maps from way back (pre-1900) show HRTs in a band across England crossing through the South West of England and passing across to East Anglia (as Chris just said). This is how most dialect/accent patterns appear across Britain, as bands passing through in a north easterly pattern.

It's not really weird, because some of these people were shipped off to Australia where this intonation became the standardised form as part of a language diaspora. This standardised form then did not evolve, whereas British English did. This meant the differences over time between Aussie and British English became starker.

Until neighbours and valley girls came along, and all of a sudden we were so like all over that linguistic trend.

i've worked in labs with people who worked with nobel prize winners.
i'm still shit at science though.