[chris_va]

I bet you are right.

I had a forensic linguistics TA during college who was able to identify the island in southeast Asia one of the students grew up on, and where they moved to in the UK as a teenager before coming to the US (if I am remembering this story right).

From what I gather, there are a lot of clues in how we speak that most brains edit out when parsing language.

[dhosek]

Or the classic scene in Mrs Doubtfire where Pierce Brosnan attempts to locate the origin of Robin Williams’s fake English accent.