On Sun, 09 Oct 2005 01:02:56 +0100, James Farrar
wrote:

On Sat, 8 Oct 2005 21:39:31 +0100, Roland Perry
wrote:

In message , at 18:27:58 on Sat, 8 Oct
2005, "tim (moved to sweden)" remarked:
And as I have posted before,
IME it is common for non first language English speakers not to
be able to tell the difference between the various English language
countries' accents (strange as it may seem to you and I).

It's worse than that. Many Americans can't tell the difference (in
accent) between English and Australian.

And many English people can't tell the difference between American and
Canadian.

There are more similarities between them than between English and
Australian. If you said Australian and New Zealand you might have a
point.
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