Joseph: I had to laugh. “British, Australian, Irish and South African”, each one is sooooo different to each other.
Zahavasdad, you’re right, we struggle with US and Canadian. I don’t know if this is funny or not, but I once asked – sorry, as you would say – one time I asked someone from Detroit if he was from Montreal. Are they similar, at all?
Now, geordie, (which anyone who has spent time in Gateshead will be familiar with) does sound very different from any other ‘British’ accent.