The FishTwits and I met up this afternoon with a web designer, who sounded like a pretty good guy. He just moved to Sweden about a month ago from Indiana and the topic came up of what you say to someone when they sneeze here. ("Prosit.") I commented that I never seem to be able to get the stress onto quite the right syllable of Swedish words, at which point he asked where I was from.

Apparently, my Minnesota accent was just enough that he wasn't quite sure whether I was an American or a Swede who spoke really good English.