Accents

Yep that's true bee...and I think it's the same of any major city in the world. Certainly it's true of Glasgow. I was born and raised in the West end ( known as the posh side)...my father was born and raised and my paternal family all lived on the South side...( mainly slum tenements etc then ) In those days people didn't move around as they do now so you could always tell which part of the city someone was from as soon as they spoke.
 

In the town I come from, it is said we have an accent all of our own, especially said by strangers to the town.

When living in Hong Kong I had quite a surprising encounter, I stopped a Chinese man to ask for directions and the first thing he said to me was, 'I bet you come from Essex' a similar thing happened in South Africa I asked a gentleman for help in a DIY shop, he was English and he pinned my accent down to within 10 miles of where I come from..:)
 
A former co-worker was/is one of the sweetest people I’ve known. She is from Kentucky and had a very thick accent (think Loretta Lynn), which she was teased a lot about and openly mocked. (This was in the 70s when people did that type thing in offices).

OTOH a former neighbor had a pretentious way of talking (not really an accent, she was from central Ohio). But in every conversation she found a way of mentioning that her father was a surgeon and she graduated from Wellesley (a prestigious, expensive east coast college). She made me wanna heave.
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Bee said:
In the town I come from, it is said we have an accent all of our own, especially said by strangers to the town.

When living in Hong Kong I had quite a surprising encounter, I stopped a Chinese man to ask for directions and the first thing he said to me was, 'I bet you come from Essex' a similar thing happened in South Africa I asked a gentleman for help in a DIY shop, he was English and he pinned my accent down to within 10 miles of where I come from..:)
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I was surprised when sitting on a plane next to a Scot (was leaving Glasgow) she asked if I was from the Great Lakes area or Canada.
 
Falcon said:
And you were Annie. Detroit is in the Great Lakes area.
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Yes, Falcon, I know. I've lived all over Michigan including having two of the lakes within a couple of miles from me - Huron and Michigan.
 

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