8.From Red Caps they moved on to Kappas, creepy water-dwellers that looked like scaly monkeys, with webbed hands itching to strangle unwitting waders in their ponds.
9.Anything with a D, double D. - Double D, basically. But they still have the non-rhoticity that we have so they don't say 'water', American say 'water'. But they don't say 'water' they say 'wader'.
10.Then a dozen or more were shoved off, and the Don, tall like a crane and a good natural wader, jumped in after them, seized a struggling wether, and dragged it to the opposite shore.
11.So it's more of a similarity to American English than it is to British English because Australians tend to flap their T's and their D's so in words like water they'd say 'wader' instead of " butter" they say 'budder'.