Newsflash, Americans: Everyone Has an Accent, Including You

The truth is we all sound ‘funny’ to someone

Portia B
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6 min readApr 1, 2020

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OnOn my way to a paid gig, my Lyft driver bombarded me with an unsolicited conversation about himself and the weather. I noticed that he spoke with a delayed tone, going out of his way to over-enunciate his words. He assumed that because I didn’t have an American accent that I must be…

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Portia B
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Writer of Caribbean descent. Have written for Galdem, Black Ballad, Zora and Level. Read more at https://linktr.ee/Portia