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Old Nov 29th 2010, 11:42 am
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Out of the 3 nations of Britain who woulld you say the aussies accept a wee bit easier? Do you thing it is due to country of birth etc?
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Old Nov 29th 2010, 12:11 pm
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Originally Posted by dazmurray
Out of the 3 nations of Britain who woulld you say the aussies accept a wee bit easier? Do you thing it is due to country of birth etc?
Which 3 of the 4 did you have in mind? Dont forget the Irish!
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Huge number of Aussies can't tell the difference, or don't even know there IS a difference. Aussie friend of mine the other day kept telling me about two "Ïrish" guys she'd met, turned out they were Geordies. Another a while back said it was odd that the Scots and the Welsh have the same accent. I have a southern English accent, and am sick of being called a Kiwi.

To be honest i don't think they really care where the majority of us are from, we are all classed as Poms, end of.
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Originally Posted by alistairboyle
Which 3 of the 4 did you have in mind? Dont forget the Irish!
they're not part of Britain

UK yes, Britain no
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they're not part of Britain

UK yes, Britain no
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Originally Posted by Pollyana
Huge number of Aussies can't tell the difference, or don't even know there IS a difference. Aussie friend of mine the other day kept telling me about two "Ïrish" guys she'd met, turned out they were Geordies. Another a while back said it was odd that the Scots and the Welsh have the same accent. I have a southern English accent, and am sick of being called a Kiwi.

To be honest i don't think they really care where the majority of us are from, we are all classed as Poms, end of.
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Originally Posted by Pollyana
Huge number of Aussies can't tell the difference, or don't even know there IS a difference. Aussie friend of mine the other day kept telling me about two "Ïrish" guys she'd met, turned out they were Geordies. Another a while back said it was odd that the Scots and the Welsh have the same accent. I have a southern English accent, and am sick of being called a Kiwi.

To be honest i don't think they really care where the majority of us are from, we are all classed as Poms, end of.
I agree I think it is how you act rather than where you are from that matters to Aussies.I think it would be rather sad to judge people from where there are from rather than what they are like as individuals.Sue.
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Originally Posted by Pollyana
Huge number of Aussies can't tell the difference, or don't even know there IS a difference. Aussie friend of mine the other day kept telling me about two "Ïrish" guys she'd met, turned out they were Geordies. Another a while back said it was odd that the Scots and the Welsh have the same accent. I have a southern English accent, and am sick of being called a Kiwi.

To be honest i don't think they really care where the majority of us are from, we are all classed as Poms, end of.
One of the Australian commentators on the cricket did a heavy "ey-up" Yorkshire accent the other day for comic effect and his colleague then commented on the Scottish accent he had just attempted, so I'm inclined to agree with you. I'll add that they are still better at this than the Americans, one of whom once asked me if Scotland was an island.
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Originally Posted by Seneca21
One of the Australian commentators on the cricket did a heavy "ey-up" Yorkshire accent the other day for comic effect and his colleague then commented on the Scottish accent he had just attempted, so I'm inclined to agree with you. I'll add that they are still better at this than the Americans, one of whom once asked me if Scotland was an island.
Don't some Americans think the English sound like Aussies(Only fools and Horses)then what do the Aussie sound like to them?Sue.
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Originally Posted by petensue
Don't some Americans think the English sound like Aussies(Only fools and Horses)then what do the Aussie sound like to them?Sue.
Certainly from my time in the US, almost without fail, Americans took my Mancunian accent to be an Australian one.... but then again I have no idea of the difference between Florida and Washington State accents either.
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Originally Posted by petensue
Don't some Americans think the English sound like Aussies(Only fools and Horses)then what do the Aussie sound like to them?Sue.
I think it is a common source of confusion for them but to be fair if you took your average Brit and asked him to tell the difference between someone from Canada and someone from the US he probably wouldn't be able to do it.
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Originally Posted by ROMFT_WO2RN
they're not part of Britain

UK yes, Britain no
and to be really pedantic the other 3 aren't nations
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Originally Posted by fish.01
and to be really pedantic the other 3 aren't nations
Did someone upthread say Scotland and Wales were not part of Britain?
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Originally Posted by Pollyana
Huge number of Aussies can't tell the difference, or don't even know there IS a difference. Aussie friend of mine the other day kept telling me about two "Ïrish" guys she'd met, turned out they were Geordies. Another a while back said it was odd that the Scots and the Welsh have the same accent. I have a southern English accent, and am sick of being called a Kiwi.

To be honest i don't think they really care where the majority of us are from, we are all classed as Poms, end of.
While talking about the use of Pom I agree that some don't know the difference...for the large amount that do know the basics I usually hear it used like this:

Obviously English = Pom
Welsh usually thought of as English = Pom
Obviously Scottish = Scottish
Obviously Irish = Irish
Northern English = Sometimes English, Scottish or Irish
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Originally Posted by Seneca21
Did someone upthread say Scotland and Wales were not part of Britain?
No, why?
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