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Outdoor Miner can do no worng - at least as far as puns go.

how can you say that? You've roomed with him, too.

I can say it very easily. I have a firm grasp of the grammatical structure of English and have no speech impediment.

Yes you do. You're from Bahh-ston.

I was visiting friends in Scotland once and we were walking into Balmoral (The Queen's summer house). I was reading the pamphlet on the place. My friends were just saying how I didn't have an accent. Then I said in my normal voice not trying to talk differently "Hey the entry funds go to the royal can-sah society." At which point they bursted out laughing and said "There's the accent!"

They were also amused by my saying "I'm all set." when they would ask if I wanted something. And I had to explain what cold cuts were.

Kent, as a transplanted Bostonian, I can attest that it's "boss-ton" not "bahh-ston".

On the other hand, when I moved to Detroit, I had to get used to people pronouncing my name "jahn".

Dang, halfway to winning and it was on the second page too.

And Rockhopper Lad is correct on the Bostonian pronunciation of "Boston".

Yeah, I've never understood why people think Bostonians say "bahh-ston". New Englanders, in fact, make the sharpest distinction between a short "o" and broad "a" of any speakers in the United States.

That being said, I've moved around so much and my speech pattern has been so affected by TV and radio that it's very difficult to determine exactly where in the US I come from.

Not to pick on Michigan too much, but I found it amusing the two years I lived there that the folks there claimed not to have an accent and then would say things like "Jahn, get ahf the ruff and go-oo to skoo-will."

I had a co-worker once who grew up in the Mid-west. She always said "War-shington". I noticed that John McCain in his ads says "War-shington" too.

People who say "Warshington" also say "warshing machine" and "warshroom".

And they talk about Bostonians adding Rs where they don't belong.

Bostonians only add an "r" after a word ending in a vowel which precedes a word beginning in a vowel. When I lived in Boston in the '90s, I remember a lawyer doing a commercial on TV where he suggested calling his "law roffices".

Some British people do this also, such as when Hyacinth Bucket brags of her sister Violet's "Mercedes, sauner and room for a pony".

I loved when Eartha Kitt rolled her Rs when she played Catwoman.

Purrrrrrr-fect!

I've noticed certain pockets (or perhaps midwest tranplants) in Upstate NY doing the same. Another common-but-not-universal upstatism I've noticed since I was little: names like Sean and Dawn are sometimes pronounced "Shon" and "Don."

Much like Rockhopper Lad complaininig about being called "Jahn"

Sometimes I miss the auto-reply feature I had in my old computer...

I don't

Why Not?

I just don't.

Never ever?

Hardly ever...Oh. Sorry. I was having a Gilbert and Sullivan moment.

Those are the best types of moments to have. Better than a senior moment. Not that I know personally about senior moments.

I haven't had a senior moment since my last year of undergrad.

That's good.

Sure is.