Wise words from pdblake there :-) Yorkshire does vary a lot, he's right. And yes, Cockney does not resemble Australian in any way, I've no idea where that came from ;-) Of all our indigenous accents, the most baffling must be Glaswegian (natives of Glasgow, Scotland)... at its strongest, this dialect is almost incomprehensible to anyone living outside that area, and even many Scottish people have a lot of trouble understanding it!! For a good demonstration of the Glaswegian accent, there was a Scottish comedy show on TV called "Rab C.Nesbitt", no idea if it's been exported, maybe it's been repeated on UK Gold, I dunno. Anyway I remember an episode where the phrase "commit suicide" is pronounced "camat sooiseed", and they even used to spell episode titles phonetically, for example "fitba" (translation: football) :-D Okay, guess I should say at this point that I'm not taking the piss, it's just light-hearted observation (just in case any Glaswegian members hang out here) ;-D