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I sound like everyone else from Wyoming, I guess.

I have to listen VERY carefully to folks from some other parts of the country in order to understand them. East Coast people have their particular accents and talk REALLY fast, as do people from California. I served with a guy from New Orleans with a very heavy French accent, could barely make out what he was saying. Of course, understanding "inner city" people is next to impossible at times.

Funny story, in Basic Training, 1958, I was in the same company as a group of about 10 African-American guys from Alabama, IIRC, they spoke clear English as well as anyone, but they knew I was a hick from the sticks, so any time I was around they would slather on the jive talk so bad I absolutely has no clue what was happening. They sure had a lot of fun with me, I never found out the joke until one of them told me about it years later.