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I do not speak with an accent. You do.

Here is a fascinating site which features recordings of people around the world, reading the same small paragraph in English.

The broad range of accents is interesting. My favorites so far are from Brooklyn and Scotland.

The link is here: The Speech Accent Archive.

h/t to Mental Floss.

Elizabeth

I discovered Elizabeth over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend as I helped Aidan with another startlingly involved school project. She was to research her first ancestor who arrived in what is now the United States. Luckily we have distant relatives who are obsessed with geneology and they like to share. It was easy to determine who […]

How to color styrofoam balls.

colored styrofoam balls

There comes a time in every parent’s life when they must help a child assemble a molecular model of methane gas.

Naturally, styrofoam balls hooked together with lollipop sticks are the material of choice. The sole reason styrofoam was invented was so elementary school children could do science projects, bring them home, and put […]