Re: First Sound Recording of Asha'ille!

> When I speak English I'm taken for Irish by Americans and for American
> by everybody else.  The Irish is probably because I sometimes pronounce
> my /T/ and /D/ as stops, and voice my sibilants wrongly or not at all,
> which is part of the Irish accent stereotype.  I picked up my English
> from my father's mother who had lived in Chicago for 10+ years, but
> she still had an accent of course.
Of course, it may also be that you just picked up a Chicago [e&ksInt]
from your grandmother! Are your back low vowels unrounded?  Lord knows
we also have plenty of Irish people here.

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