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from "Mike Lyle" contains these words:


I started French only medium-early, at nine, under a retired colonel
whose Hindi-Urdu was pretty shit-hot as far as we could judge, but whose
Latin accent was totally un-Romance, and whose French accent fell a long
way short, as I later discovered when I moved on to better-qualified
teachers at thirteen.

LOL. We had a French teacher who, even beginners couldn't help
noticing, spoke French with a very heavy Welsh accent.

Janet