This is the Southland burr, the only distinctive regional accent in the country. It's a soft appealing noise, deriving, — Joe Bennett, A Land of Two Halves
This is the Southland burr, the only distinctive regional accent in the country. It's a soft appealing noise, deriving, — Joe Bennett, A Land of Two Halves
This is the Southland burr, the only distinctive regional accent in the country. It's a soft appealing noise, deriving, — Joe Bennett, A Land of Two Halves
This is the Southland burr, the only distinctive regional accent in the country. It's a soft appealing noise, deriving, — Joe Bennett, A Land of Two Halves
This is the Southland burr, the only distinctive regional accent in the country. It's a soft appealing noise, deriving, — Joe Bennett, A Land of Two Halves
This is the Southland burr, the only distinctive regional accent in the country. It's a soft appealing noise, deriving, — Joe Bennett, A Land of Two Halves
This is the Southland burr, the only distinctive regional accent in the country. It's a soft appealing noise, deriving, — Joe Bennett, A Land of Two Halves
This is the Southland burr, the only distinctive regional accent in the country. It's a soft appealing noise, deriving, — Joe Bennett, A Land of Two Halves
This is the Southland burr, the only distinctive regional accent in the country. It's a soft appealing noise, deriving, — Joe Bennett, A Land of Two Halves
This is the Southland burr, the only distinctive regional accent in the country. It's a soft appealing noise, deriving, — Joe Bennett, A Land of Two Halves
This is the Southland burr, the only distinctive regional accent in the country. It's a soft appealing noise, deriving, — Joe Bennett, A Land of Two Halves
This is the Southland burr, the only distinctive regional accent in the country. It's a soft appealing noise, deriving, — Joe Bennett, A Land of Two Halves
This is the Southland burr, the only distinctive regional accent in the country. It's a soft appealing noise, deriving, — Joe Bennett, A Land of Two Halves
This is the Southland burr, the only distinctive regional accent in the country. It's a soft appealing noise, deriving, — Joe Bennett, A Land of Two Halves
This is the Southland burr, the only distinctive regional accent in the country. It's a soft appealing noise, deriving, — Joe Bennett, A Land of Two Halves
This is the Southland burr, the only distinctive regional accent in the country. It's a soft appealing noise, deriving, — Joe Bennett, A Land of Two Halves
This is the Southland burr, the only distinctive regional accent in the country. It's a soft appealing noise, deriving, — Joe Bennett, A Land of Two Halves
This is the Southland burr, the only distinctive regional accent in the country. It's a soft appealing noise, deriving, — Joe Bennett, A Land of Two Halves
This is the Southland burr, the only distinctive regional accent in the country. It's a soft appealing noise, deriving, — Joe Bennett, A Land of Two Halves
This is the Southland burr, the only distinctive regional accent in the country. It's a soft appealing noise, deriving, — Joe Bennett, A Land of Two Halves
This is the Southland burr, the only distinctive regional accent in the country. It's a soft appealing noise, deriving, — Joe Bennett, A Land of Two Halves
This is the Southland burr, the only distinctive regional accent in the country. It's a soft appealing noise, deriving, — Joe Bennett, A Land of Two Halves
This is the Southland burr, the only distinctive regional accent in the country. It's a soft appealing noise, deriving, — Joe Bennett, A Land of Two Halves
This is the Southland burr, the only distinctive regional accent in the country. It's a soft appealing noise, deriving, — Joe Bennett, A Land of Two Halves
This is the Southland burr, the only distinctive regional accent in the country. It's a soft appealing noise, deriving, — Joe Bennett, A Land of Two Halves
This is the Southland burr, the only distinctive regional accent in the country. It's a soft appealing noise, deriving, — Joe Bennett, A Land of Two Halves
This is the Southland burr, the only distinctive regional accent in the country. It's a soft appealing noise, deriving, — Joe Bennett, A Land of Two Halves
This is the Southland burr, the only distinctive regional accent in the country. It's a soft appealing noise, deriving, — Joe Bennett, A Land of Two Halves
This is the Southland burr, the only distinctive regional accent in the country. It's a soft appealing noise, deriving, — Joe Bennett, A Land of Two Halves
This is the Southland burr, the only distinctive regional accent in the country. It's a soft appealing noise, deriving, — Joe Bennett, A Land of Two Halves
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This is the Southland burr, the only distinctive regional accent in the country. It's a soft appealing noise, deriving, I presume, from the Sottish settlers, but resembling no known Scottish accent. It's simply Kiwi English with added r's.

— Joe Bennett, A Land of Two Halves
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