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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stormborn" data-source="post: 3651557" data-attributes="member: 14041">Bullgrit, as others have said, is correct.  My accent waxes and wanes in proportion to my proximety to certain members of my family.  A master's degree and nearlly 2 years in Kiev, Ukraine filed most of the rough edges off of it, but some words from my childhood crop up.  My wife, OTOH, was raised by a British Mother and a Mississippi Father in Huntsville, Alabama (which, for those of you who do not know, is a little piece of everywhere else in America that they crammed into Alabama) so her accent, dialect, and vocabulary are peppered with lots of interesting things, including a great slew of made up words that noone who didnt grow up in their house know.  And just for the record: regardless of where the Mason-Dixon line is drawn Delaware is NOT a Southern State.  At least from the persepective in the Heart of Dixie.</blockquote>