Well, just READING Mr. Cameron's posts makes my heart pound! Do you really talk that way?!!?! Ohmagawd. Back in the 80s I used to love to hear Stuart Adamson of Big Country talk even though I could barely understand him.

Sometimes I listen to international radio feeds on the Net and it's sort of amusing that the broadcasters in Ireland and Scotland, just like in the US, have very little accent.

Now me, I have lived in the South all my life and don't have that really telltale "peel me a grape, Sugar" accent, although there are elements of my speech which would immediately identify me as a Southerner to a linguist. Plus I say y'all, and fixin to, and most of those expressions the "educated" detest. (Well, I'm "educated" too, so kiss my tattooed behind.)

My friend LuAnne from Mississippi (who is also "educated") has a REALLY Southern accent and people stop her all the time and want to know where she's from and start talking to her just so they can hear her speak. When I visited England many years ago, our pals there were quite taken with the way we Tennesseans talked.

when I was there I met an Irishman I gladly would have married right then and there if he had only asked me. He was from Galway. He could have talked to me all night and I would have been perfectly content.

Mr. Cameron, keep talkin' tae us, please.

KFC