And I mostly hear you guys (that's Michigan-accent for y'all) with my
undetectable-to-me Michigan accent.
You should hear Tamara's broad Australian accent way down here :)
David
http://www.michigannative.com/ma_home.shtml
:)
Lynn Carpenter in SW Michigan, USA
alwen at i2k dot com
To
At 09:31 PM 5/30/2005 -0400, Lynn Carpenter wrote:
I don't know about anyone else, but when I read the emails from the list,
Tamara, Joy, Lynn, Pam, Joy and everyone else have all written them in a
slight 'East End of London' accent because that's how I speak so that's how
I read them.
And I
At 07:13 PM 5/31/05 +0800, Jenny Brandis wrote:
At 09:31 PM 5/30/2005 -0400, Lynn Carpenter wrote:
I don't know about anyone else, but when I read the emails from the list,
Tamara, Joy, Lynn, Pam, Joy and everyone else have all written them in a
slight 'East End of London' accent because that's
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From: Jenny Brandis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 9:13 PM
Subject: [lace-chat] Re: pronunciation
At 09:31 PM 5/30/2005 -0400, Lynn Carpenter wrote:
I don't know about anyone else, but when I read the emails from the
list,
Tamara, Joy, Lynn, Pam, Joy
Jean Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't know about anyone else, but when I read the emails from the list,
Tamara, Joy, Lynn, Pam, Joy and everyone else have all written them in a
slight 'East End of London' accent because that's how I speak so that's how
I read them.
And I mostly hear
Lynn, This site is a hoot! Yes, lots of people around here DO talk
like that -- not so much the college-educated ones, but definitely
the clerks at Walmart's! (One addition: He wonders why it's ink
pen. Undoubtedly that is a result of the immigration of factory
workers from the South, where
Moving this to chat, as it has wandered away from lace:
Annette Gill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sylvie Nguyen wrote:
While I naturally use the American pronunciation of Sylvie, people
still insist on calling me Sylvia, which is not my name.
You're lucky - I'm often called Anita! G My aunt is
