Swiss Alps
Murren, Switzerland
May 24, 2000
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We are usually assumed to be English around here. We had thought that
had to do with our volume level: some Brits years ago told us that
we don't speak as loudly as Americans (and Germans) tend to. But a
woman on the train from Murren told us today that she assumed we were
English because we don't have an American accent. What is an American
accent? She said the soldiers who stayed in Switzerland after World War
II had a stronger accent. So I tried my best Brooklyn accent. "That's it!"
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