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I have a fascination with accents, especially accents in people who speak English. I figure this is because my family moved to New England when I was around 7 or 8 (I don’t remember exactly), and I was old enough to detect the difference in the way that people spoke. I’ve often joked to people that I speak “true” English, without an “accent” – unlike the New Englanders around me who most certainly do<\/em> have an accent<\/a> (to a greater or lesser degree).<\/p>\n

Don’t ask me how, but I recently came across an article on “General American<\/a>” in Wikipedia<\/a>, which I believe describes my “accent” (or lack thereof) quite accurately. Finally, some evidence for the way I speak!<\/p>\n

The fact that I find this interesting, and actually get excited about it, just proves that I am such a geek<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have a fascination with accents, especially accents in people who speak English. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/simUj-accent","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":236,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2004\/09\/04\/oh-canada\/","url_meta":{"origin":746,"position":0},"title":"Oh, Canada","author":"Keith Survell","date":"September 4, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"As some of my dear readers will already know, I'm off to Montreal, Canada this weekend.","rel":"","context":"In "personal"","block_context":{"text":"personal","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/personal\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4930,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2017\/01\/20\/this-seems-oddly-familiar\/","url_meta":{"origin":746,"position":1},"title":"This Seems Oddly Familiar","author":"Keith Survell","date":"January 20, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Disturbing dystopian similarities.","rel":"","context":"In "My Opinion"","block_context":{"text":"My Opinion","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/personal\/my-opinion\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2007\/11\/1984-was-not-supposed-to-be-an-instruction-manual.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2007\/11\/1984-was-not-supposed-to-be-an-instruction-manual.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2007\/11\/1984-was-not-supposed-to-be-an-instruction-manual.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2007\/11\/1984-was-not-supposed-to-be-an-instruction-manual.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":6190,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2024\/12\/10\/another-year-another-set-of-key-caps\/","url_meta":{"origin":746,"position":2},"title":"Another year, another set of key caps","author":"Keith Survell","date":"December 10, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"It's (almost) a new year, and during Black Friday I saw an ad for key caps and it's been a little while since I last changed out my key caps, and the price was good, so I decided to get myself a new set, just to change things up. 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