Quote Originally Posted by sydnie7 View Post
At my last "real" job, we had a tech support hotline that answered calls from all over the U.S. One tech support guy was an older Scot with fine accent, and another was from Maine. One day, a third person answered the line. The caller said he'd already called in once and spoken to "the foreign fellow," so he got transferred to the Scot.

You guessed it. . . he'd been speaking to the "down Mainer"!
ayuh, we do sound like weah from anothah country.

Actually my accent has blended over my years of moving, having some of my Maine and New Hampshire overtones mixed with Michigan, New York and Florida.