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Annael
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Mar 24, 5:19am
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on the West Coast, the Southwest, and most of the mountain states we all pretty much sound alike - I certainly can't tell what state any Westerner is from by accent. The "American" accent you hear on television is basically western US. The "Fargo" accent is fairly local to the Dakotas and Minnesota, most Midwesterners don't sound like that but they do love a diphthong. In the eastern states things get more complicated. I once shared housing with a person from west Tennessee and another from east Tennessee and I could hear a difference, although mostly they just sounded "southern" to me - I haven't really traveled in the southeast, maybe someone who has can distinguish those accents. Texans don't always sound like John Wayne, but sometimes they do. My dad, from the Boston area, could tell the difference between different parts of Boston, and apparently New York City has its different accents too. New England in general has a distinct sound that gets more distinct the farther north you go (Dad was adept at doing a "Down East" accent). We make fun of each other, but we usually do understand each other.
I am a dreamer of words, of written words.
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Greenwood Hobbit
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Mar 24, 7:53pm
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The whole business of accents and dialects
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is fascinating! The distinctive Liverpool accent is, rather unkindly, sometimes described as a third Irish, a third Welsh and a third catarrh. Niiice...!
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Starling
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Mar 29, 2:35am
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Years ago I made a 'Herman the German'
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cake with my class. I'd never heard of it but we were given the starter, and then had to keep some to pass on to the next person. Then we had to make the 'friendship' cake and share it with others, using the starter. From memory it was quite a spicy and dense cake, but the important part was the making and gifting.
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dernwyn
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Mar 29, 11:51am
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I think that was what made it special
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Making the breads, and passing along the starter to each other - until we'd all had so much of it, and were tired of the breads! 
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grammaboodawg
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Mar 29, 1:28pm
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More than a few times when I was working, we passed around starters of what we called "Amish Friendship Bread/Cake". It could be adjusted with added ingredients to make a loaf bread (like zucchini bread) or a spice cake (including the strudel topping)... and we kept that starter cycling throughout the library and campus for years!
I still have the stained and marked-up recipe sheet. Somewhere the starters stopped!!! So sad.
We have been there and back again.
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