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Originally Posted by Acajack
I can tell British from Australian reasonably easily though not 100% of the time. Though I've spent time in Australia.
My kids who have never been to Australia and have little experience with the Strine accent can't tell them apart and would say it's British of some sort. They'd say the same for Kiwi and Anglo-South African too.
But my kids can easily tell U.S. and British apart.
Except for people from the Southern U.S., my kids think Anglo-Canadians and Americans pretty much sound the same.
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I must admit I find the Australian and NZ accents hard to differentiate but South African is distinctive.
For the British Isles, I can pick out Mancunian (think of the Gallagher brothers), Scouse (Liverpool), south Wales (Tom Jones or Rob Bryden), Lancashire, west country (Devon/Cornwall/Somerset), Cambridge, East Anglian, Midlands, Yorkshire, Newcastle area (known as Geordie english), London, Cockney (not so much an accent but certain words/expressions/rhyming schemes), RP english/BBC english, Glaswegian, regular scottish, Northern Irish and then Republic of Ireland accent. There are also variations within social strata/education in those accents.
My family are all from the UK, I was born there and have been back countless times and I must admit I watch a lot of TV shows from there.