You can tell an authentic yankee by his or her accent (maybe proving that I'm not one, 'cause I have lots of "common all over the US" answers) and variants of that beautiful New England accent are not to be found in New York or New Jersey, but are easy to find in Maine or New Hampshire, or Vermont, or even Mass.[/QUOTE]


I could hardly understand the people in Maine. I thought they had a British accent. But it was a lovely accent. We were a crew at our cabin in Maine with our mixture of Boston and Southern accents.