For me it's always words that start with "Tu" that I particularly notice. Americans will usually say twos-day or two-nah, whereas as a Brit I am used to chews-day or chew-nah.
I’ve always wondered how Australians manage to turn two-letter, monosyllabic “no” into “nairyoo”.
This is just an observation but the Australian and some British pronunciations of "no" bear an interesting similarity to the sound of "nij" (no) in some Dutch dialects.
Perhaps the have a common source? Old Saxon?
Or Frisian, or perhaps even... Uh, "Anglic", or whatever the language of the Angles is called?
It follows the general Australian pattern of stretching single vowel sounds into diphthongs, or breaking them up into 2 parts Consider for example the Australian pronunciations of 'late' and 'beer'.
Or New Zealanders: "noyy"
I'm rarely understood when I ask for a Mountain Dew in US restaurants, even when I try to adapt and say "Doo" instead of "D'you"
other words that may or may not have a 'y' sound: duty, new, computer
Who says "com-poo-ter"?!
Some old guy from the depths of rural Norfolk, I’d guess. But then the t might be replaced with a glottal stop.
A friend's younger cousin from not far from there (Lowestoft iirc?) would say this - one memory I have is how he squished "can I play the computer?" to "ca' play compoota?" (which after discovering Monkey Island he said quite a lot). Might have been a kid thing rather than a regional thing though :)