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[quote=Anonymous]I say "mum" but in my defense my mother (ie my mum) is Australian and I spent my teenage and college years there. I mostly speak American English nowadays but certain words are hard to excise from my vocabulary, particular as I call my own mum "mum". I've had people judge me as being pretentious because of my slightly "British" (actually Australian but Americans can never tell) accent. I swear, I'm not trying to be like Madonna when she lived in the UK - I spent 14 of my formative years Downunder so I picked up a slightly Aussie accent as well as some Aussie-isms like mum. :) :roll:[/quote]
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