I've lived in Nebraska all my life, but I seem to have a talent for language - I've managed to fool people (not native to the described areas) that I'm from New York City/Brooklyn and also from the U. K. If I talk to someone for more than a few minutes, I start to pick up their accent.
Sandy P.S. - Cindy, I say "wash" too. At 11:31 AM 4/1/2008, you wrote: >Dianne wrote: > >Can you tell the difference between a Michigan accent and a Pennsylvania > >accent? > > >How about Kentucky and Texas? > >OK, point taken! > >and Jean Waddie wrote: > > >I went and checked with my husband about the original books, I assume > >that's what the writer was referring to. But it would be worrying if > >people then listened to Sean Bean's accent and thought "Ah, that's what > >Cockney is!" > >I read once that Bernard Cornwell originally envisaged Sharpe as a >dark-haired Cockney, but after Sean Bean had made the role so much >his own, even he started to think of him as a fair-haired Yorkshireman. > >Kate Bunting >Cataloguing & Data Quality Librarian >University of Derby "Those Who Fail To Learn History Are Doomed to Repeat It; Those Who Fail To Learn History Correctly -- Why They Are Simply Doomed. Achemdro'hm "The Illusion of Historical Fact" -- C.Y. 4971 Andromeda _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
