Non-british and non-australian people, do you ever do this...?

I sometimes get them mixed up. And sometimes the difference is obvious. I have a pretty standard American accent and was shocked at how many Europeans that weren't English, thought I was from England.

As an American, I have trouble discerning all non American accents. I understand the subtle differences between british and Australian accents, but I still confuse them sometimes.

Depends if it's a strong accent or not. If you've got the whole Steve Irwin thing going on, it's unmistakeable. Otherwise, I think that's happened

Thanks to Outback Steakhouse and the Geico lizard, no, I do not get them mixed up.

I'm British and I've confused an Essex accent for an Australian (sorry Australia). I was about 16 though, and this was before The Only Way is Essex. Southern English accents still confuse me.

I have no problem telling a Brit from an Aussie accent.. Shouldn't really be that hard honestly...

Wait?!?!?! there is a difference?

Yes, but not always. I'm not good at accents.. They are both lovely accents though.

I'm British and I sometimes get them mixed up.

I used to get asked if I am British. By other Aussies. I don't hear it, myself.

I have to say... sometimes I get some American accents and some Canadian accents mixed up : / I'm really sorry, I know that's a sore point! lol

I'm American and I find it difficult to distinguish between the Cockney accent and the Australian accent.

Personally? Never, its slight but ounce you notice it youll realize their accents differ like night and day

Weird, because I'm Aussie and my parents and grand parents are too but lots of my fellow Aussies think I'm English

No actually I can usually tell the difference. Since when something is British its very clearly British. It not really American but you can tell its off. Same with the Canadian accent it does not sound Australian or English but you can clearly tell they are not American. African accents are unmistakable. You can also tell when something is Scottish from Irish. They are close but if you listen they are not the same. I don't know I guess I pick up slight differences in each one. I am not sure how I know it but I have been asked to differentiate them all before and I usually get it right.

I can't vote because I am British :( haha, but I always find that a lot of American's who try to do an English accent, it always sounds Australian in the end. :L

I equate the Australian/British accent to that of the American accents, namely the ''Southern'' accent versus the standard American accent.

In the South, people tend to drawl more on the words they say. The same type of thing goes for Australians. They, to me it seems, tend to accentuate words whereas the British say their words ''sharply'' if that makes any sense, haha.

I would like to also add, both are sexy!

There are a lot of different English accents and a lot of different Australian accents so some are confusing to tell apart, others are easy to differentiate.

Nah, I can tell the difference between standard accents. When you get down to specifics, though, I can't tell. Like Georgia and Alabama accents. There's a difference, I just can't tell.

I probably have an advantage since my aunt's husband emigrated to Chicago from New Zealand, and then the Detroit area, and I used to stay with them a lot.

But his family was in UK and he had one of those Oxford accents. He didn't sound exactly like a New Zealander and certainly not like an Aussie. There are a lot of accents in UK, the two best known being cockney and, I suppose, the Oxford accent or upper class one that you hear in movies.

When I think back to the Polish Uncle who couldn't speak English when he came over, to the British/New Zealand uncle to the various American and German accents there on the American/Canadian border of Ontario Province, dinner used to sound like a meeting of the UN. And yet, I have trouble understanding people from the remote parts of the deep south.

As an American I've never mistook one for the other because they're very different.

That being said, I can see similarities, but they're not close enough for me to confuse them.

I have gotten them mixed up once before when an Australian came into my store asking for directions, thought she was British until she stated she was Australian.

I'm a New Zealander and I don't think I could ever confuse the two - even if I were drunk.

I'm British, and I can hear the similarities between the two accents.

Some Australian accents share a lot of similarities to a South East English accent. I think the similarities are the reason I find it easy to emulate an Australian accent, and why a lot of people not from Oz or the UK get them muddled up.

I don't find it annoying when people make this mistake. It's totally understandable. I would struggle to tell the difference between a Russian accent and a Ukrainian accent, a Canadian accent and a US accent, a New Zealand accent and an Australian accent, a Thai accent and a Vietnamese accent, a Zimbabwean accent and a Nigerian accent etc.

Sometimes.

I used to think Chase from House was using an America-friendly faux-British accent, and I was surprised when I was told both the character and the actor playing him were Australian. I've never heard the similarity between real Aussie and real British accents, though, only the similarity between the Hollywood fake accents. The two sound completely different to me, although I am British so I should think I'd be able to tell the difference.

I'm more likely to confuse Canadian and American accents or Australian and New Zealander accents. Although I feel like I'm getting a little better at judging both of them you kind of have to know the individual intra-national accents because to me both of those have similar basic qualities.

Not quite, but I've mistaken New Zealanders for Brits before.

Seldomly. I can identify the difference between these accents within a few words from the speaker.

I've found that as well! And the poll results suggest it's quite a common thing. Interesting!

I'm a non-native English speaker and I can tell the difference if the sample size is large enough. It's mostly the intonation that gives it away.