Claire said "If I learn a song from a cd then I will stear clear of that recording until the song is my own"

...I have any number of CDs I can no longer risk playing just in case the version I learned from inf(l)ects the version it has become...

...or do I mean just in case I realise how much I've mangled it?

But there are couple of words or phrases in acouple of songs I learnt off Bob Fox where I can still detect what I think is a trace of Geordie accent. To /most/ listeners it still sounds like my natural Scottish accent, but /I/ know...

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Hamish