Personality

I would guess that kiwi means from New Zealand, and limey would be a Brit.

A kiwi is someone from New Zealand. A limey is either a British sailor or an English person. Yes, an aussie is an Australian.

Hey, The 'Canadian'..We have Nufies, French Canuks and Canuks... don't ya love us, eh?

Pete uses "Canuck" as well, but I added a plugin to mix it up when I saw Brother Jerome's are you a Canuck (re) keyphrase. I can't make life too easy for Psimagus.

i'm pretty sure south africans also have a similar accent

My senior year of college, there was a guy on my wing named Donovan who was from South Africa. His accent was kind of like the British accent, but I could tell the difference. He was fanatical about Rugby.

Seth Efricens, yeys, the vewels er elweys fermed en the beck ev the throet. *koff* Always hurts to try to speak with an Afrikaaner accent.

That's hilarious. You're a clever one.

I met a linguist once, who could tell you where you were born,(to what neighborhood) and most places you had lived, by having you say just a few phrases. It was spooky.

within america? a sociolinguist?

It was at school. He got the German Teachers birth place, where she grew up, and the fact she either married an Englishman or lived in England for a time. He did likewise for at least ten people. I can't remember the exact text he had you read, but it had the words toy, tie, library, Wednesday, sugar. and some other simple words. I guess you pick up a base accent before you are two years old, then add to it as you move around, and grow up.

i'd say you get your "base accent" before 12 - 15 years.