how kiwis (that's me NZer's talk)...

[carole]

To be honest Pat, to me no we don't sound like that, but you know you don't hear yourself the same as others do, we often think we don't even have an accent,but we do, i think the south africans are a little different in their accents, my hubby's workmate is south african and my son's fiancee is half south african, but she is born here, so no accent, but interesting to read this.,hey maybe we do.

yes the aussies and kiwis have a bit of a rivalry going, sometimes in fun, sometimes not so much, we accuse them of stealing all our famous people which they do actually and claim them for their own, and there is the debate about pavlova, a yummy dessert we make here, we claim we own it, the aussie say they do. i don't really know .

I imagine the canadians and americans have a similar thing going .

[david p]

Sis, even other people in the U.S. think that people in Pittsburgh have an accent and a language all their own. For proof look up Pittsburghese.com. There is even a Pittsburghese/english translator!

[carole]

Oh My GOSH really, that is amazing David, yep we are a funny lot with our accents, they say the south islanders here also speak a wee bit different to the north islanders too.