I was reading a forum post today and it went along the lines of “People should be nice to Aussies, their accents are entertaining”.  I thought to myself, “What accent, american drawler?” and decided that if my accent was entertaining then every other accent in the world must be awfully grating – russian accents excepted, there’s just no way a russian accent can be bad in any way.

I’ve heard before the ‘myth’ about our accent – I work with Australians, talk with Australians every day, grew up in Australia, have given and heard speeches in Australia, and I can verify we do not have an accent – unless you come from Darwin in which case I guess it’s a fair cop.

Anyway, it’s the rest of the world that have accents, all us Aussies have no accent at all.