Zoochatters and their accents

I'm not sure that's possible. Unless he uses a synthetic voicebox?

 

Well, they have to hear them more than anyone else.....

One problem is that the majority of well-known people who presumably started out with an accent similar to mine have shed it to a greater or lesser extent combine this with the fact that I come from something of a no-mans-land between much stronger and more recognisable accents, and I find that a lot of people have trouble pinning my accent down!

For instance, as alluded above, @ShonenJake13 and several other Zoochatters from the Low Countries believed that I sounded Irish most Americans I have met thought I sounded Scottish. I've been told by Scottish people that I sound like I am from north Yorkshire. One Mancunian I once met thought I was Welsh.

Ozzy Osbourne speaks more clearly than you do

 

The closest two comparisons - but who have both somewhat lost their original accents to a greater or lesser degree - would be Vic Reeves and Mark Gatiss, both of whom originate from my area.

Helly reckons this video I just found of the former sounds pretty close to my accent:

 

So I watched a bit of Jasper Carrot and it seems like a perfectly acceptable accent. Ozzy is pretty straight-forward too.

Definitely don't sound anything like TLD's Vic Reeves!

 

Coming from South Australia (the only Australian state not settled by convicts! *), we tend to have a very English accent - much more so than people from other states where Strine tends to be stronger.

When travelling in the United States, I was asked frequently whether I was English, to the point where I would make a point of greeting people "G'day mate, 'owzit gowin' ?" to try and give people a hint before they made an assumption.

(* - although ironically, my mother's family is directly descended from a 1788 First Fleet convict and my Grandmother and her family moved from Sydney to regional South Australia in the 1950s - while my father's side of the family emigrated from Germany to South Australia in the 1840s which was long enough ago that any German influence in accent has been lost, despite every generation marrying Lutherans until my Dad married my Mum!)

 

Apparently I don't have a strong Kiwi accent. When I worked in tourism I was always getting people asking how long I'd been in NZ, or if I was English.

In one of the countries I was in on my last trip (can't remember which one off the top of my head; I think Cambodia) a hotel owner asked if I was American. When I said I was from NZ he said in a confused voice "so why do you have an American accent?"