"Dan Abel" > wrote in message
...
> In article >,
> Becca > wrote:
>
>> Cindi - HappyMamatoThree wrote:
>>
>> > Born in Asheville, NC and raised mostly there I sound an awful lot like
>> > that. Even two years in California hasn't changed it. The thing I am
>> > asked
>> > when I speak to anyone for the first time is "Where are you from?
>> > Obviously
>> > not here." Yeah, kinda
>> >
>> > Cindi
>>
>> Cindi, I get that same question, "Where are you from?" It is so hard to
>> hide an accent.
>
>
> Happily, us folks in California don't have an accent, so we don't get
> that question.
>

Hey, I'm a folk in California =-)


Cindi

> :-)
>
> My SIL has a heavy accent. She is always apologizing for it. I don't
> understand why, since she is perfectly understandable, and if an
> occasional word doesn't make it, just ask and she will explain
> perfectly. Nobody asks her where she's from, though.
>
> My uncle and aunt have heavy accents. My uncle has been in the US for
> 50 years and still has an accent.
>
> My mother came to this country at the age of 25. By the time I knew
> English, she had no perceptible accent. My uncle came at the age of 19,
> but he never lost it.