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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

I had the opposite problem.  I had a nanny from Georgia (back in the day, as 
the kidlets say, a babysitter who came to your home was called a nanny).  I 
had an accent so thick you could cut it with a knife.  First day at school 
and the teacher does the "now stand up and tell us your name" and then 
because there was a Naval base and the projects for ex-servicemen, she asked 
where we were from.

Nasty old woman sent me home with a note pinned to my dress!  She flat 
refused to believe me when I told her I was born in SF and raised in 
Humboldt County, CA!

I have to be real careful because folks are inclined to think you are making 
fun of them when you aren't from the South and suddenly you're "y'all-ing" 
and "dahling-ing" and so forth and so on but it comes right back in full 
force if I'm around anyone with an accent for more than about 15 minutes.

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "EarthNSky" <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>
> Well, of course, I did, too, but I lost it for a spell while in college
> and just after.  As you know, Emory is full of New Yorkers who didn't
> make it into Harvard, and I later worked at a computer firm where I was
> the ONLY Southerner...almost everyone was from NY, NJ, and MA...there
> was one guy, Louis, who introduced me to Lacrosse and was funny as
> hell...Louis was from Wisconsin, the first person I ever met from that
> state.  I lost my accent to the point that people would ask me where I
> was from..they thought I was from the Midwest. (And by the way folks,
> those around here consider Colorado the Midwest...places like Ohio and
> Illinois are "up north" :)