>I never lost my accent. I merely misplaced it ;)
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What? me?, accent? couldn't be, I speak Queens English, I'll have you know.

But it is interesting, being a Kiwi in the UK, especially living in 
Oxfordshire which has as 'minimum' an accent as anywhere in the UK. I still 
occasionally get asked where I am from, and respond with 'where do you think 
I am from'. Not too often is the first guess NZ, generally Australia, but 
occasionally (and worryingly happening more) South Africa, although I don't 
believe I have the guttural intonation of SA, or the nasal intonation of 
Australians.

But it wasn't until I had been here for a couple of years and lost the 
'tuning in' to the 'NZ accent' and then heard an item on TV from 'back home' 
that I realised why so many people do confuse Kiwis and Ozzies. 

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