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My accent alone doesn’t influence my name choices. Some people would call my accent posh but neither husband or I see it that way. Husband is the only person I have ever met who has been able to correctly place my accent as soon as he met me despite knowing nothing of where I was born. However where I live is around 102 square miles and has around 500,000 people in it. There are six distinct local accents within that area and within husbands and my immediate family there are ten different British accents. Both of these influenced our name choices. We have within our immediate family people who say hands, people who say hanz people who say hand and people who say hawn and all mean the plural of the same body part.

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