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meeting people from England in the US...

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Yeah, I just went basically "I have heard you" and went on about my life and assumed that she had led some sort of extremely unfortunately sheltered life and hadn't learned to really interact with other people, haha!I LOVE accents, I love to listen to them and try and guess where people are from, to hear regional variation and fusion accents - the best one I ever heard was a woman from Georgia who married a South African and lived in Australia - wow! Like music. I never understand people who bitch about that - we've had an influx of NYers to Portland and they complain about EVERYTHING and how it's not NY but I love going and finding those different regional things - customs, accents, dress, beliefs, cuisine, culture, all those things. It bolsters my personal theory that there is no "American" culture, there are many.I had a roommate from Glasgow, Scotland, and she could do any UK accent and I could do a bunch of US and we'd take turns leaving the weekly greeting on our answering machine in different accents, with appropriate background music.

meeting people from England in the US...

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Yes, yes they do! And we do it to each other, too. I go to the East Coast and New Yorkers start doing an exaggerated West US accent when they hear me and if I am so unfortunate as to say "dude" or "cool" in front of them they all roll on the ground laughing and doing it themselves. I had an office manager from Kentucky at a job in Virginia and she actually said to me, in front of other people, that my accent and vernacular were very affected, annoying and passe' and that I needed "to realize that it's time to move on."

meeting people from England in the US...

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All the New Zealanders I've ever met have been lovely, wonderful people but... http://adultsheepfinder.com/ and I remember a PR course I was taking in LA, we all had to get up and give a ten-minute presentation on any subject we knew well, and this sweet little young guy from Christchurch, about 22 and all shiny and new started his with: "I'm from New Zealand, where there are 6 sheep to every man!" and then was so confused and crestfallen when we all burst into laughter and couldn't stop.

Research into aspects of Welshness throughout history

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That is what it is - and other names came from that - "Price," "Pryce" and "Brice," "Bryce" from "ap Rhys" (or ab Rhys, same thing) (son of Rhys); "Upjohn" from "ap John" (son of John); "Prichard" from "ap Richard"; etc.

Research into aspects of Welshness throughout history

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I'm interested in that and I want to find more of these individual, wild guys through history that went out and did incredible things, like John Rhys - fought at the Alamo as a young guy, came back to Wales and was at the front of the guys shooting at the Chartist uprising, back to the US to swindle people with his Alamo Texas land grant and then ended up in the California gold rush? What a life!

Hollywood and Owain Glyndwr?

Promoting Wales in the USA

Wow, both those stories are really annoying.

Hollywood and Owain Glyndwr?

Promoting Wales in the USA

So now my vote is totally Rhys Ifans as Owain Glyndwr.

Hollywood and Owain Glyndwr?

Promoting Wales in the USA

Yes, that would be perfect casting!

Hollywood and Owain Glyndwr?

Promoting Wales in the USA

"... will give Charles and Camilla forty acres and a mule!"Hahahahahaha! Ah, Ken, was just thinking about you and missing your fabulous outrageousness!

Hollywood and Owain Glyndwr?

Promoting Wales in the USA

OMG, I'd never seen "Cupid Stunt" before! This is HYSTERICAL!