I was having dinner in Paisley
sitting next to an elderly Australian couple making plans for the following
day. She was spending the trip researching ancestry in Scotland and told the
server that her family had emigrated from Scotland in the 1930s. Now she was
working on her husband’s family. Later, after not paying attention for quite a
while, I noticed that the man was trying to teach his wife how to say
“American,” with an American accent: uh-mur-a-cun.
She was trying to make the E a long E and could not quite get the hang of it.
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