three questions to find out where someone is from

[Wilson Gray]

On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 12:24 AM, Dan Goodman <dsgood at iphouse.com> wrote:
> Just for the heck of it; my native dialect includes, among other
> vocabulary items:  tractor-trailer, stringbean.

Doesn't everyone? ;-)
>
> "Aaron" and "Erin" have different vowels.    So do "horse" and "hoarse."

Needless to say! ;-)

There aren't many of us left still speaking local-accent-free English! :-)

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