> That's many English speakers with a completely foreign language
> which gets the foreigner to look a prat and the local to act
> stupid. It isn't needed with any English dialect I've encountered.
> This is more a case of speaking clearly at a normal speed rather
> than abbreviating and slurring words together as many dialects do.
You clearly don't have any family members from the Ozarks.:) And as I
said before, I found Glaswegian (and for that matter heavy Cornish or
Newcastle accents) perfectly incomprehensible.
Jeff