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Question of the day #1: Accents

Yesterday I mentioned a revolutionary new globally interactive Blog-cept, and here it is. It’s a question of the day ! Yeah, underwhelming I know. But I am interested in the fact that Google analytics tells me that I have quite a diverse readership out there. Over the last week alone, I’ve had visitors from 66 countries. Now I want to harness that collective knowledge by asking you some probing questions. I’ve already written the questions, and they’ll be appearing at Noon (Hobart time) for each day for the next business week, yes. that means five days of questions. As it is only fair, I will answer my own question first on the comments page. You can be as concise or as loquacious as you wish. As is my wont, I’m open for answers as long as this here Internet lasts. My intention is to give it a bit, l crunch the data and then wax lyrical as to what I might be able to conclude from it. Onto the question! Given the linguistic and cultural diversity lurking out there, I’m looking to you ...

G'day, Ow ya goin'?

I like accents. I like accent archives. I like how he guy from Wellington is trying very hard to say "six" rather than "sex". I would like a beautiful but harsh Germanic woman to tell me how naughty I've been, but that really is another matter for a wholly different website! Try out the the Speech Accent Archive , where the aim is to exhibit a large set of speech accents in English from a variety of geographical and language backgrounds.