Re: By a common language divided

On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 22:22:54 GMT, Jette <bosslady@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:

>Developed a VERY American accent.... except ... there were words that 
>she learned to pronounce in Glasgow, and never needed to use much in 
>the US, so whenever she said them, she said them with the exact same 
>pronunciation and intonation she'd have learned in Scotland, whereas 
>words she used daily in Tulsa she said with an Oklahoma accent.

Which, to some extent describes me - though over the last fifty-plus
years living in the South more and more of the Yankeeisms have been
disappearingmfrom my own speech.