Yeah, I realised about 30 seconds after I posted this that it was a bit self-centred. Kim (who is from Connecticut) said the exact same thing as you. Interesting about the accents, though - I had no idea there was such a thing as a Maryhill accent or such variety within Glasgow. I'd have assumed it was the other way round between the US and Britain, in fact - in England at least, regional accents have softened a lot, and there's basically no distinction anywhere in the south-east unless you get way out into the villages. Plus there's much more mobility between, say, London and Glasgow than New York City and, well, just about any Southern town that doesn't have an airport (like the one I'm currently in).

But yes, America: fascinating. I'd like very much to live here for a few years, though that doesn't seem likely to ever happen - even if the US newspaper industry wasn't collapsing around our ears, the newspapers here are all something I'd file firmly under Alien. The layout and design, the feel of headlines, the writing style from tone and structure to little oddities of how sentences are constructed - none of these are familiar or intuitive and it'd take years for me to get my head round them to the point where it'd actually be worth giving me a job. Ah well. I shall resign myself to being a (hopefully frequent) tourist.