Mes Amis
Having just booked my reservation for the hotel at this year's sure to be fantastic Bouchercon '08,I have discovered my usual problem in making American bookings that my scots accent kind of mangles certain vowel sounds for you guys in the US.
Also I discovered that when pressed I don't actually know my own phone number.
But more importantly:
I say blue like
"Bloo"
As the guy asks me whether I mean blueyonder like, "Double O?"
Russel, is of course, "Ross" or in one amazing misunderstanding I had a few years ago, "Rose".
And more than once I've found "books" is like "boots".
No wonder I get odd looks when I'm on a panel.
Au revoir
Russel
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Next time use your Sean Connery accent. Us Americans mostly speak Connery!
Of course, spelling things out can help if it gets really bad...
"No wonder I get odd looks when I'm on a panel."
Trust me, Rose, your accent's the least of your worries on that front.
Yes, you're probably right, Mr Stuart... the accent is nothing compared to my penchant for doing panels dressed only a stretegically place banana skin and throwing whatever comes to hand at the audience.
And I have noticed the Connery effect, Miss Angie... I have but one use for my Connery impression, however, and that is to tell the single same joke with it every time. It amuses Jim Winter, at least.
Maybe it's just because my mother-in-law is Glaswegian, but I've never found your accent difficult.
It's not the way you say it, but what you say that confuses the hell out of me.
You must have phoned to make your bookings for Bouchercon, 'cos they've misspelled your name, and they've got the link to your site wrong...
(I'm lovin' the B'more accent. I've been called out for talking weird.)
I think I also type with a really heavy accent, yes, that explains it...
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