[NeoCaveman]

I thought this guy was from California; didn't they insist he sounded like someone who spoke English as a second language?

I'll skip my usual California joke and just say that other than "tieranny" it sounded like American English to me, or possibly non-American English aka British.

[Myrddin]

British English is definitely different from American English. I was on a business trip at the SHAPE facility in Belgium in 1992. The Belgians had an advertising campaign against drunk driving. The posters were in French. I wanted to know what the poster said, so I picked up a French/English dictionary at the snack shop next to the cafeteria at lunchtime. I was in a hurry, so I just tossed the dictionary in my backpack and headed back to the office. When I returned to my hotel room in the evening, I whipped out the dictionary to translate the French to English. The first word I didn't recognize in French translated to English as bloke. That was real helpful. Now I need and British English to American English dictionary.