So - have you been told that you have an accent?

I've mostly got the standard US television accent. Having grown up in New Jersey, New York, and Virginia, and having been around people with many different accents, I guess I just pulled through with the boring stuff. Having all that around me means I can (on a good day) pull off some halfway decent mimicry.

People in Utah say "pop" for everything. From the mappings I've seen, "coke" is predominantly southern with a strong front in part of New England, "pop" is mostly midwest through to about Nevada, and "soda" is strongest in the non-coke parts of New England (including most of New York), California, and most of the east coast through to about South Carolina (and much of Florida). I wonder where that polling site went; it was quite informative.

Jam it back in, in the dark.