Reply #133: I had someone who did *not* know where I was from peg me as a San Francisco native

[The Green Manalishi]

He was a fellow who was pretty knowledgeable about linguistics and such; he said it was pretty easy to 'tell' out a Californian. I imagine I must have as much of an accent to someone who speaks funny, like a Virginian or a Texan as they have to me.
Also one retort to my European friends who chide me about how few Americans speak anything other than English- true, 'dat, but we have enough variations of English to keep the brain busy. I wondered why some relatives from Boston wanted to go "Potty",......