You Talk Like A Local

Last night I met up with a friend from England who has been living in the United States for the last ten years. He and I have had some really interesting conversations about London, and I was really excited to see him in his old, and my new home.

After chatting for awhile, he looked at me absolutly astonished, and asked me to repeat the sentence I had just said. I did, and he said, “you’re talking like a local”. Now he didn’t mean that I’ve picked up the accent, but that I had started to pronounce local place names in the local accent, thinks like Grosvenor or Leicester.

Of course, he has been living in New York for the last few years, so who knows if his “ear” is really tuned for London pronunciation anymore :-)