Reply #189: My grandmother could read and write English but she didn't like

[EFerrari]

her accent so she never spoke it -- one of the curses of being very musical and having a great ear.

It's funny, too, because she was also a writer and helped me fall in love with language. The first organized game I played was the vocabulary quiz in her Spanish language Readers' Digest. I'd get one or two of 20 right. She'd be upset if her score wasn't perfect. So, the dreaded Spanish language was my passport to a career in letters and English ones, at that. Go figure. :)