http://piscesinpurple.com/2010/01/more-on-accents confessions of a reformed tourist Sun, 29 May 2011 23:24:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://piscesinpurple.com/2010/01/more-on-accents/comment-page-1#comment-4858 little_bounce Mon, 25 Jan 2010 09:46:38 +0000 http://piscesinpurple.com/?p=1873#comment-4858 The post made me laugh, because when we lived in Grenada, everybody said they could understand my cut-glass, BBC English accent fine... but I had a terrible time following the local accent (especially some!)- which was not a problem I'd ever had before, even with the weirdest accent. My husband's semi-English accent (he grew up speaking French and only English to his mother), they couldn't understand. But he understood most people fine. The post made me laugh, because when we lived in Grenada, everybody said they could understand my cut-glass, BBC English accent fine… but I had a terrible time following the local accent (especially some!)- which was not a problem I’d ever had before, even with the weirdest accent. My husband’s semi-English accent (he grew up speaking French and only English to his mother), they couldn’t understand. But he understood most people fine.

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