[M.D. Holloway]

I have a pretty thick NE accent, my wife is midwestern, we live in Texas. My 5yr old son is in K-grade. Needless to say, he has a rather interesting way of speaking - a blend of southern twang and beantown babble - and he talks way to fast. The teacher recommended speech work for him. The lingusit (sp) interviewed him and then talked to us - needless to say after I started to talk she said "I have seen this sort of thing before - we call it the yankee influence."