Accent.

I promised I would tell you about my weird accent/speech impediment. I guess that might help you get to know me a bit more, if anyone is really even reading this. I mean, I always find it difficult to feel like I really KNOW someone, even if I know every single fact about their little lives, if I've never seen a photo of them and heard what their voice sounds like (or, you know, I could actually meet them. That works, too).

Now, there's a bit of controversy about my voice. A lot of the younger people I've met (teens, children) say that I have an accent. The older people (parents, teachers, etc.) say that I don't, and that I merely enunciate my words. It is true that I so speak funny, especially certain words- cat, rather, soup, no, yeah... All have been reported to be as words I say "wrong." Even when I went to People to People, with kids from all over the country, they all said I had an accent from someplace other than my state.(Because people from my state don't HAVE accents. They hardly even MEAN half the words they say. No enthusiasm.)

The only problem is that I'm not FROM anywhere other than this state. My mom's a third generation resident of this state, and my dad's been here since he was a baby. I guess my family history IS pretty interesting, though. If you checked on Ancestry.com, ours might be oen of the most fun to look at (if I had kept up my account- I didn't remember that you had to pay to make an account). My grandpa came to America when he fled from Russia pre-WWII. (as a Jew, he had to leave, or be killed. Several of my relatives- great aunts, etc.- were killed at the time, anyways.) One of my ancestors came to America before the Revolution, too- if I wanted, I could join the organization "Daughters of the American Revolution." We think that they came from England, because my last name means "English kitchen servant." (If you can guess what it is, I'll give you a cookie.) Actually, I had family on both sides of the Civil War, too. And one of my relatives was one of the original Utah pioneers. And one of my great grandparents spoke only Gaelic (from Ireland). One of my ancestors was even the first Postmaster General. I think. If he wasn't the first, he was at least ONE of the original Postmaster Generals. Oh, and part of my family randomly ended up in Africa. Don't ask me how.

But all of that was really far back. None of that is likely to be the cause of my "accent." Personally, I think it's just that I talk strangely. An accent can't be an accent if it's not FROM anywhere, can it? At first my dad thought that I just spoke oddly because I couldn't pronounce words with my braces/expander. But now I don't have either of those, and I still can't talk right, so, I guess it's just me. But it's OK- I talk oddly and I don't have a problem with that. I have a family, friends, and boyfriend who love me no matter how strangely I talk, and that's all that matters.


EDIT: Scratch that about the boyfriend.