[Jim W N]

I always thought that a British accent was from a some kind of disease.

[Aliska]

I thought it (a British accent) was cool but am tired of hearing it now. I've wondered how accents and dialects develop the way they do. Especially since I had to read Chaucer in the crazy English spoken and written in his time. Whan that Avril with its sweete showers soote.

The Catholic church teaches that speaking in a strange (but real) language is a sign of possession.

People who believe in reincarnation think it could be a sign of that.

But this isn't a foreign language. And I do believe that deep in our memory bank, we might be able to duplicate what we can't do consciously. But that's just a theory.

That murder in Chicago was solved by the victim taking possession of a friend, definitely, and identifying the perp and things he had stolen and tried to cover with a fire. There's an article about in in the Chicago Tribune archives among other places, think it was on 60 minutes. They tried to come up with other reasons for it which was almost unprecedented.

[Grampa Dave]

“I always thought that a British accent was from a some kind of disease.”

Our local Walmart for over a decade had this great old Brit with a terrible Liverpool accent as one of their greeters and watchers.

After a few years, a customer told the store manager that he should fire the old Brit because of his accent.

The store manager told the customer that their Greeter was British, and she, the customer had the accent. He was a good and loyal worker, and as a manager he would not fire him.

The customer told her family members, and they told her the store manager was correct.

She and the old Brit became buddies after that without a lot personal dialog.