3 nations
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3 nations
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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Re: 3 nations
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.
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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Re: 3 nations
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.
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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Re: 3 nations
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.
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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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.
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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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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Re: 3 nations
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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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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Re: 3 nations
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.
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.
Obviously English = Pom
Welsh usually thought of as English = Pom
Obviously Scottish = Scottish
Obviously Irish = Irish
Northern English = Sometimes English, Scottish or Irish