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>
>Good morning, mites,
>
>Accents...
>
>My rule of thumb is that when I run into someone speaking english with an
>accent, I can be sure that he/she is perceiving me to have just as much of
>one...
>
>Chairs,
>Lawrence
>
>
>
> > <And I'm non. I'm a Yorkshireman.>
> >
> > That explains so much... :-)
> >
> > Yes, it's amusing to hear the term 'British' accent, but then I
> > suppose people over hear will talk of an 'American' accent too. Of
>course
> > familiarity with a range of American accents is more likely in
> > Britain than
> > vice versa, if only due to the predominance of US TV shows on UK
> > TV. Current
> > TV favourites of mine include almost exclusively American shows- The
>West
> > Wing, 24 (please don't tell me what happens!), The X-Files,
> > Smallville, ER,
> > and Malcolm in the Middle.
> >
> > As we used to say in my home town (Maidstone in Kent), we have pubs
> > three times older than the USA.
> >
> > Vincent
>
You also have more different accents of English than the whole North
American continent, and a good number of them are unintelligible to us
continentals. Come on over and take a butcher's.
Cheers,
Grant
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