I pride myself on my correct English both spelling and speaking. I still to this day ask with "May I" instead of "Can I". Text speak is horrid. It teaches our children nothing except laziness. (I'm like Valerian and even use punctuation LOL)

As for metric and imperial ... how long do we hold onto the past? Metric is the only way to go  - my generation was never taught imperial. Everything here uses metric with the exception of baby weight ... how weird is that? I still don't know how much my kids weighed at birth in metric LOL

Australia doesn't really have any accent differences. There are some slight inflections I pick up from Western Aussies but they are very slight. The Kiwi's are quite similiar to us, with only a few words showing they are a completely different country (six, broom and fish for example).