Re: KV, Humans, and Political Divisions

>As for your points about us Americans and Aussie vs. NZ
accents, I must
>plead guilty, though I am learning.  Similarly, I've met very
few Aussies or
>Kiwis who could tell an American from a Canadian very easily,
especially if
>the American was from say, Michigan or Minnesota or Wisconsin
or the
>Dakotas, and if the Canadian was from southern Ontario or BC or
anywhere
>near the US border, yet we have a fairly easy time making those
>distinctions.	Your point is well made.

Further, not only can we tell a Canadian from an American, we
distinguish between, for example, a damyankee and a Southerner.
And if you have experience, you can distinguish accents from
smaller areas.	In the job I just left, our customers came from
Georgia, North and South Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia,
Tennessee, and Alabama.  I could often tell by the accent what
state, and sometimes what part of the state, a caller was from.