> I find, after only seven and a half years in the Boston area (Chestnut > Hill & Somerville, if you must know), that I don't really drop Rs; I add > them. I occasionally have trouble with Lawr and other such words, but I > normally speak in the good ol' unaccented Miami dialect. So people > mistake me for Canadian. I don't know why; every Canadian I've met has > had a Canadian accent (including my boss). After splitting my language forming years between New Jersey, Indiana, and largely Latino areas of Southern California, no matter where I go everyone else has an accent. -- "In my darker moments I consider creating the eeyore fan club with a theme song by Leonard Cohen, logo by Edvard Munch and costumes by Tim Burton." -- anonymous, forwarded by Ellen.