>No, don't listen to Alan on this one. We laugh at Canadian accents here... :o) But turn arounds fair play, more of the world laughs at us... :o)

Hah! One of your most respected news anchors was a Canadian - Peter Jennings, and all the rest tried to sound like him. I know you guys think we pronounce our 'ou's funny, but that's only because Americans don't seem to be capable of pronouncing the sound at all. We pronounce it like 'ow', and you all pronounce it like 'ah'. We say 'howse' and 'abowt' and you say 'hasse' and 'abat'. ;)

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>>>>>>Whats your native accent John ?
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>>>>>>Combination of John Cleese and Barry Humphries? ;-)
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>>>>>In, or out of, drag?
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>>>>I don't think John Cleese really has John Cleese's accent. He was born and grew up in Weston Super Mare in Somerset so he should have a west country accent not BBC posh.
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>>>It's like watching U.S. news shows out of places like New York or the midwest. None of them have a local accent. They all sound like Canadians.
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>>Does that mean that Canadians are regarded as "well spoken" in the US a bit like BBC English is regarded as "well spoken" here.