[create-username]

those words are your Shibboleths, words that give your origin away.

When I was in Germany, friendly people used to compliment me on my language skill saying "your German is good!". To which I would reciprocate: "thanks, yours too!"

[dhosek]

My ex-wife whose native language is Spanish worked hard to eliminate her accent because she got tired of people calling her accent “cute.” Her shibboleths were anything with a schwa. The whole concept of schwas offends her sense of vocalic purity.

[hug]

So her shibboleths were approximately every word in the English language?

[dhosek]

Only some schwas escaped her. “Digital” is the one that I remember best.