OMG!!! Don't tell me you sound like a Virginian!! (Lucky girl...) ; ) Clay (in Lynchburg, VA, USA, but headed for Alaska tomorrow!!)
----- Original Message ----- From: "Lynn Carpenter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, September 06, 2003 1:06 PM Subject: [lace-chat] Re: English is hard to learn > 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] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
