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Originally Posted by Webstral
My Irish housemates once said they saw the Irish accent as neutral and proceded to describe the ways in which English, American, Canadian, Scottish, Australian, and New Zealand accents mangle the (ahem!) Queen's English. No measurable sense of irony.
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That sounds like when I moved with my family from Hawaii to Texarkana TX (not my idea, I was a dependent and my stepmonster was taking over as the active duty First Sgt of a reserve unit) and everyone told me
I had an accent! No,
you all have an accent!