[Windflier]

Then again, when I lived in England, perfect strangers would immediately guess that I was from California. I never even knew we Californians had an accent.

[Chickensoup]

I never even knew we Californians had an accent.

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Really?

“The milk is way creamy and is way too grodie to drink.”

“Duh! Why would you get grodie whole milk? What-ever, that is the worst milk ever.”

“You want me to like go to the store and like buy some milk? As if!”

“OK,” “you know

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[PUGACHEV]

"Then again, when I lived in England, perfect strangers would immediately guess that I was from California. I never even knew we Californians had an accent.

Oh yes there is a definite Cali accent. I was once in Mexico City and ran into native Mexican speaking English with a strong Valley accent. He had never been to the U.S. but picked up the language, and his accent, listening to tapes called "Let's Speak English!"

One the other side of the spectrum, there used to be a wizened old Chinese man who would stand on a street corner off of Canal Street in NYC and sing old standards like "She's Commin Round the Mountain" at volume with a perfect, I mean perfect, Appalachian accent.