And What’s Your
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Accent ?
At one time the Australian accent abroad stuck out like an arm in a splint. Now, with every one else living in everyone Oise’s country, and tourists gadding the whole time, its got to he almost inconspicuous.
An American woman in the Panama Hilton in Panama City, thought we came from Scotland and that the way we talked was just the very cutest thing. An American we met in Malaga, Spain, thought we were Canadi ans. It seems we are moving somewhat up the scale.
In London The Accent is swamped by accents from every country in Europe, Asia, Africa and the West Indies that have come here to live permanently.
I was fascinated by a Jamaican conductor who slunk up and down a Number 9 bus like a loose-limbed panther saying, softly: “Animal fizz, please.”
It took me the whole trip be tween Kensington High Street and Piccadilly Circus to con clude that he was asking for any more fares, please. —Judy Tudor, in London.