When I was a little girl, we lived two houses over from my great-aunt, who was an English war bride. My mother says I picked up her accent so strongly that at one point she was asked how she came to adopt me!
I thought I had completely lost it (I still think I have completely lost it), and last winter I was talking to another woman in a ceramics class I was taking, when suddenly she asked me where I was from. I gave her the name of the small town where I grew up, just north of Grand Rapids, Michigan, and she shook her head. "Your vowels are all wrong for that area." Apparently the way I say "o" sounds, as in "road" are more eastern-US than they "should" be! Lynn Carpenter in SW Michigan, USA alwen at i2k dot com To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
