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Hey, J! I got through all ten of your pod talks. Good ideas, compelling stories, wise commentary.

You’ve a nice voice. Only the teeniest bit o’ NCAE creeps in, when you pronounce anything like a long O, as in “home.” But it’s pretty endearing, frankly.

My sister-in-law from Minnesota says the Rosetta Stone, the pronunciation key or whatever for this dialect is the phrase, “Smoking or non?” in the requisite Swedish (Norwegian?) sing-song. She says if you can master that, you can move on to “Hot dish. You betcha!”

Blessings on your week-end!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/North-Central_American_English

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