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>>On Mon, 17 Sep 2018 21:10:41 +0100, "Ophelia" >
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>>>On Mon, 17 Sep 2018 19:45:10 +0100, "Ophelia" >
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>>>>>On Sun, 16 Sep 2018 20:47:50 +0100, "Ophelia" >
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>>>>>>Is your wife Dutch too?
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>>>>>No, but she doesn't have the Australian accent.
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>>>>> Ok May I be so bold as to ask from whence she hails?
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>>>>She's from Sydney.
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>>>>Posh Australian? You know, sounds posher than the average Aussie? ;p
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>>>Not particularly posh, but she speaks clean English. It varies a lot
>>>how Australian Australians sound. This is Ocker, the strongest accent,
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>>>LOL I know. What I meant by 'posh' Australian, I meant with no strong
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>>So do you sound posh?
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>>LOL not really. I still have a Yorkshire accent although not very strong
>>now People can't always guess where I am from)
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>I don't know how strong my Dutch accent is in English. My wife says
>it's very light, but I think she's just used to it. In Dutch I sound
>normal, not posh.
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>I'm not sure about the Yorkshire accent. Is it where they leave out
>the T in "but"?
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>Some of them do, yes <g> Having said that, not only Yorkshire folk do
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I won't try to understand the UK accents or dialects and their
differences. I think that's a job of a lifetime. It's the same in the
Netherlands. You could find 2 Dutch people who can't have a
conversation because they don't understand each other.

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LOL yes!!! Same here too))