I've been playing around at the Speech Accent Archive, listening to English speakers from all over the world recite the same paragraph over and over again. It's especially entertaining trying to decide which of the American recordings I sound the most like. Of course, my ability to hear my own pronunciation is limited to say the least, but so far it sounds as though the Idaho recording is the closest. Weird, since I've never lived anywhere close to Idaho. Maybe the sum of all my geographical experiences---Southwest, Midwest, South, Ireland---somehow equals out to Idaho. I'll have to remember this should Idaho ever become a Terrorist State in need of Infiltration.

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