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On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 14:23:31 GMT, Anne Jackson
wrote:

I found (in London) that no matter what the (American) _accent_ is,
the mode is usually LOUD!

We must not have encountered each other. I am soft-spoken at home and
abroad. As I suppose you are. Perhaps you were beside me when a
clearly-identifiable American woman made a nuisance of herself loudly
repeating every other line of a play to her companion. This is rude in
London. It is also rude in Chicago or Elko, Nevada.

The problem was more manifest on the Tube. Two Americans, usually at
opposite ends of the carriage, would identify each other as such, and
proceed to hold a conversation.....neither bothering to move nearer
to the other! 8-((

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AnneJ
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