Having collected my boy from his new school a few times over the last fortnight, and overheard the conversations of various young mums, I offer the following language advice. “Hello” is pronounced with a short ‘o’, not a long ‘ooo’, and should at no point be pronounced in a sing-song tone. The Welsh can manage that, you can too.
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G’Day, eh!
Funny how that eh makes it sound like I’m dragging the A… eh?
You forget that Minnesotans (especially the female variety) have the most complex, palindromic, canon-like use of diphthongs, for instance in sentences like “Eawwwwkeaha theeaaehn, seaualaiaeiteeeur!” (jaw wagging around) which in case you can parse that is spelled “Ok, then see you later!”