[Grampa Dave]

Remember the Suez Canal was under British Control for decades. Generations of Egyptians worked for the Canal.

Many Egyptians who worked for the Canal went to English schools in Egypt and many went to higher learning in the UK.

Some speak and write better English than most of us.

If she was a child of these people, she would probably be very fluent in English with minimal accent except that of a UKer.

[texasbluebell]

It wasn't even a UK accent. She sounded like one of us.