https://thomasswick.com/blogs/tswick.php?disp=comments en-US http://backend.userland.com/rss 60 Tue, 06 Mar 2012 19:29:39 +0000 Leonie [Visitor] c26010@https://thomasswick.com/blogs/ <p>oh Tom, this is PERFECT!!! I get SO tired of having to explain my English accent. Surely in a country like America, where a New Yorker and a Southern lay claim to the same citizenship but have different accents would understand that there really isn&#8217;t ONE accent for all the people on one island. The worst was recently when I mentioned I&#8217;d be visiting family in Wales and the person said, &#8220;Oh your accent is so WELSH". I am quite certain he had no idea where Wales was&#8230;.</p> oh Tom, this is PERFECT!!! I get SO tired of having to explain my English accent. Surely in a country like America, where a New Yorker and a Southern lay claim to the same citizenship but have different accents would understand that there really isn’t ONE accent for all the people on one island. The worst was recently when I mentioned I’d be visiting family in Wales and the person said, “Oh your accent is so WELSH". I am quite certain he had no idea where Wales was….

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