>>>>>>>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.
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>>I think it means that we have what might be considered a middle of the road, non partisan accent.
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>I can almost always tell when a speaker is Canadian. Just a few vowel sounds that tip me off. Not sure I can articular exactly what, though.
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>Tamar

My brother moved to Toronto 30+ years ago. He has lost his New York City accent entirely. He has the caricature oot and aboot etc. (although not quite that strong) and words like process and progress are pronounced with long o's.