 | | 2016-04-06 18:33
From blog The Clothes Horse
Outfit: Carnlough Harbour
Living in Northern Ireland has given me a strange sort of sympathy (empathy?) for Gwyneth Paltrow and Madonna and their faux British airs and accents. You see I'm not trying to intentionally shed my American accents and pronunciations (or ways of spelling), but it's hard to hang on to them when locals keep correcting your pronunciation of words and you have to learn the local terms in order to be understood. If I ask for chips at a restaurant I'll get fries (not the crisps I might have been expecting), if I talk about my bangs people won't immediately understand I mean my fringe. Words that are the same can be pronounced quite differently; I don't say scone the same...
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