> It matters not where you were born or how you
> were brought up to speak. If you go and live in
> the South for any appreciable amount of time,
> you WILL begin to talk like a Southerner. It
> seems unavoidable.

I was in Texas for less than a week once and I was *thinking*, let alone speaking, with a Texan accent after the first couple of hours. Aaargh. I never heard such an all-pervasive accent. Fortunately it wore off quickly after I left.

Brunnen-"it was worth it to visit the NASA control room and fiddle with the dials in a prototype space station, though"G