And What About This Interesting Factoid:
Where’s Your Accent From?
Almost all of our families migrated to this country from somewhere else, but once they got here where did they settle (or where did you grow up) – – before you wound up in California? Are you sure?
If you or your parents moved to this state, here’s another really interesting and entertaining quiz you may want to take. One that pinpoints where your spoken language, in particular your dialect of American English, is from. (nyti.ms/1bXnOdD)
(I’ve lived in a lot of places in the U.S. and thought I would surely “stump” this quiz from determining where I was from. In fact, most people who know me and have guessed where I’m from based on my accent have almost always been wrong! Well, the dark red “sweet spot” on the results map I got back, to my amazement, identified me exactly as coming from Southern New Jersey, where we speak an odd blend of New Yawk, Philly and Virginie twang that almost always confuses listeners!)
Yes, I’ve Got To Do It!
If you’ve read many of my previous articles, you may be wondering and waiting to see how I’ll tie all this back to estate planning.
These kinds of family investigations are fun and are a great opportunity during this holiday season to explore your family’s past and pass on a legacy of great stories that may live on in the future – – you know, the truly enduring “stuff” of life we can never adequately convey in the legalese of your estate plan documents!
