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    Quote Originally Posted by Jock Scot View Post
    I can often place the assorted accents and turn of phrase, pretty accurately and sometimes, I can, on occasion, even place an accent to within a very specific area of a county.
    That's a game I like to play.

    Pygmalion's Professor Higgins was the master, and claimed to place a speaker's origin to within one or two streets, if in London.

    Once, on holiday in Greece, a stranger overheard my wife speaking and asked her if she was from a particular village - almost, she is from the next one just four miles away..!

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