in North America . The other front lax vowels and , too, can be lowered and/or retracted. This phenomenon has been labelled the Canadian Shift. The pronunciation of certain words shows a British influence. For instance, shone is ; been is often ; lieutenant is ; process can be ; etc. Words like drama, pajamas/pyjamas, pasta tend to have rather than ~. Words like sorrow, Florida, orange have rather than ; therefore, sorry rhymes with story rather than with starry. United States West Indies and Bermuda For discussion, see: Bahamian English Barbadian English Bequia English Bermudian English Caribbean English Jamaican English Saban English Trinidadian English Oceania Australia Australian English is relatively homogeneous when compared to British and American English. There is however some regional variation between the states, particularly in regard to South Australia, Victoria, Queensland, Northern Territory and Western Australia. Three main varieties of Australian English are spoken according to linguists: Broad Australian, General Australian and Cultivated Australian. They are part of a continuum, reflecting variations in accent. They can, but do not always reflect the social class, education and urban or rural background of the speaker. Australian Aboriginal English refers to the various varieties of the English language used by Indigenous Australians. These varieties, which developed differently in different parts of Australia, vary along a continuum, from forms close to General Australian to more nonstandard forms. There are distinctive features of accent, grammar, words and meanings, as well as language use. The furthest extent of the Aboriginal dialect is Australian Kriol language, which is not mutually intelligible with General Australian English. On the Torres Strait Islands, a distinctive dialect known as Torres Strait English is spoken. In Australian English, pronunciations vary regionally according to the type of vowel that occurs before the sounds , , , , and . In words like "chance", "plant", "branch", "sample" and "demand", the vast majority of Australians use the short /æ/ vowel from the word "cat". In South Australian English however there is a high proportion of people who use the broad /aː/ vowel from the word "cart" in these words. Centring diphthongs, which are the vowels that occur in words like ear, beard and air, sheer. In Western Australian English there is a tendency for centring diphthongs to be pronounced as full diphthongs. Those in the eastern states will tend to pronounce "fear" and "sheer" without any jaw movement, while the