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A woman suffering from agoraphobia who only left her house twice in ten years found that the third time out definitely wasn't the charm. The 57-year-old woman from Britain who, oddly enough, is named Janet Faal, left home as part of her therapy and fell down a manhole shortly afterward.
According to The Daily Mail, Faal left home in an attempt to help her friend move a pallet that was blocking her car. Once she moved the pallet, Faal plummeted down the open manhole, leaving her with two black eyes and a broken leg. She then waited an hour for paramedics to rescue her from the dark, cramped cavity. Faal said,
"I took a step over – never in my life did I think there was a hole underneath, I thought it had just fallen over. The next thing I remember is the pain. It was awful. I fell and smashed my face on the pallet, and I was in the hole with blood all over me and I couldn’t move."
Read more on this story at The Daily Mail.
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I've often been told by folks visiting our town from south of the border that they love our Ontario accent. We're always like... what?... we have an accent?
lol...
I'd like to offer this tidbit:
I, as well as others, believe Justin Bieber is living proof that who you surround yourself with (i.e. where you end up) will invariably influence the way you speak. Let me explain. Justin is from the same town I am. The one I am in as I write/you read this post. Nobody in this town speaks the way he does. Somewhere along the way he has picked up not only the dialect but the accent of the folks he is most closely associated with. We notice this most when we see his Proactive commercials on TV. Everyone I know in town comments on it. More often than not people around here will say things like, "what's up with the accent?". "Why is he speaking like an American?". Maybe it's all part of the act, maybe he's been taught to speak like that, but most of us feel it's 'cause of where he's been for the last while and who he's been hanging around with.
Just my $0.02 worth...
Carry on...
2) Really? People in Southern Utah sound the same as people in Seattle?
Man, this is impressive, but I'd really like to know which bits to accept as truth... (And RAF, I don't think Moon Unit was ridiculing the accent she and her friends used. She was documenting it with exaggeration.)
At various times in my life I've had people ask me where I was from, even when I lived in San Francisco, and when I told them they'd tell me they thought I was from, the Mid-West, New York, Texas, New England, and many other places.
It was a woman here in Idaho that pointed out just how I would pronounce certain words, such as: water, daughter, and quarter. She pointed out that they all sound the same and she would laugh hysterically every time I would say the following: Here's a quarter for the water for your daughter.
May be that is why some people thought I lived over on Tirty-Tird & Tird in the Bronx?
Perhaps there is a simple explanation for this, but I don't know what it is. My assumption is that it has something to do with social class. Sort of how like southern-like accents seem to exist among poor white people all over the country; and southern-like ebonics is a trans-regional black accent.