It used to irritate me a little that we were mistaken for Australians
when, for instance, shopping in a supermarket in Florida.
Irrational, I know (my irritation), but we sound nothing like
*them*! ;-)
I can recognise most differences in US accents, although I should be
interested to discover if AndrewF sounds very Oz, or indeed if Walt
sounds very "Southern". I do know that Bill Barber is only gently
Texan, as I remember anyway ...
Chris
~~ >-)-
C M I Barker
Cambridgeshire, Great Britain.
www.threeshoes.net & homepage.mac.com/zuiko
On 2 Apr 2007, at 07:57, Andrew Fildes wrote:
> Geez mate - you should hear how you lot sound to us!
> I get a bit bothered often by the murkin assumption often that there
> is one 'English' accent. There is standard English of course ('We're
> english, we're speaking English – this is how English is supposed to
> sound. It's the rest of you that have accents'). That's like assuming
> that all murkins speak like Margaret Tuttweiler (sp?).
> I got really bothered by the fellow with the 'correct english' site
> that was mantion here a few days ago who refers to British English -
> that's altogether too inclusive! You have to assume that the Scots
> speak the same language for a start.
> Andrew Fildes
> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
>
> On 02/04/2007, at 3:04 AM, Winsor Crosby wrote:
>
>> Those were good ones, I thought. Lots of information imparted clearly
>> and succinctly. I admit I had to smile at the accent in the
>> introduction though.
>
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