The U.S. accent is a mix of Cornish, Scots, and Elizabethan upper-crust, if I remember correctly.
Humor :-)
I wasn’t born or raised in Appalachia, but I got caught showing my family roots when I talked about something I “drug” across the yard.
Thanks, Ellen. Total sense of unreality about it. 40 was kind of a thing, 50 was nothing, but this stuff now…
60th anniversary is diamonds, so work with that. You’re worth it.
U.S.? Which U.S.? Wisconsin, Pacific Northwest, Midwest, Northern Midwest, Texan, Georgian, Alabaman, Floridan, California Valley, Maine, Bronx, Flushing, Southy Boston, Looosiana, Missouri, Kentuckian, South Carolinan, Oklahoman, what?
All distinct and different. How cool is that?
@x-Dena-x regarding intimate products…
Once, while riding with a landscaping client to a bid, I experienced a “feminine emergency” and we stopped for supplies. I lamented having to purchase an entire box of tampons when I had plenty of supplies at home and she suggested I take one and return the rest. I asked her how.
She said, “Tell them they didn’t fit.”
She was a client for seven years.
When my Nana turned ninety, I asked her what age she’d choose, if she could. After a moment of thought, she replied, “You know, sixty wasn’t so bad.”
Of course, sixty is now in the rear-view mirror, but she was right! Hope it was a happy day.
An all you can eat sashimi buffet would just be too awesome. I’d eat so much, with only the smallest side of seaweed.
Pretty sure UP is the right direction for reaching the Hotel California.