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There does seem to be a lot of convergence among the various dialects of English being spoken in the "western" world. I also seem to detect a flattening of accents, too. Kind of transatlanticpacific. I was talking to an American today for at least two or three minutes before I realised that he was, in fact, American. His accent was quite flat, and I originally placed him as a Londoner. I even have trouble telling a well-educated New Zealander from a well-educated Australian on accent alone. Of course, I'm deaf. But you knew that. 
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Dances, of course. Or am I missing something? And how exactly do you work this into the conversation, all casual like?
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But they're even knocking that out of them in some schools in the Strine these days. Have they no principles?
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Now I keep thinking of The Liver Birds , a sitcom from the early 70s. Over the jaunty theme music could be heard the snatch of dialogue:
"You dancin'?"
"You askin'?" both with a flat Liverpudlian a.
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>"You dancin'?"
I used to work in dance (flat a for me), there was always a lively mix of dancers and dahnsers - it marks the North South divide, like grahss and grass, garaage and garidge, clahs and class.
I'd always thought that the way to spot a Kiwi was to ask them to add three and three.
By the way the "proper" way to answer the question
Ya dancing?
Ya askin'?
Ye, I'm askin'
Ask me friend, I'm swettn'
(ie: sweating
- a previous discussion mentioned:
horses sweat, men perspire and ladies gently glow)
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>that sucks Why? Have I hit a raw nerve or merely doubted your national numeracy skills? If you don't tell me, I'll not know not to do it again  Oops, just run that through the brain cell again. I expecting "sex", so you can see my problem! only a slight intonation difference between sucks and sex, sucks sounds more like Norther Ireland to me, I thought that Kiwi was more like "seeks".
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