My primary tongue, I would call North-West Mercian.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It's strange; when I was younger and people would ask, 'Where are you from?', I'd say, 'West Africa', which was odd because I'm obviously not African, but it was my home.
My family are from Liverpool, so I have some twang there - I have a Midlands accent, and I was raised about an hour north of London, so my voice is a mess. Although, to American ears, it sounds like the crisp language of a queen's butler.
I'm most comfortable with the Southern dialects, really. It's easy, for example, for me to do Irish because we've got Irish heritage where I come from.
I never show the back of my tongue. That is a Dutch expression.
The natural habitat of the tongue is the left cheek.
If I can't pronounce it, I don't want to put it in my body. Everything to me now is organic, natural, right from the farm.
I'm a mixture of Anglo-Saxon, a bit of Spanish and one-eighth American. I've often wondered if I have an Asiatic ancestor from the East as well because I have deep-set eyes. Make-up artists are constantly trying to shade my eyelids, and I have to point out that I don't have any!
I must confess... I don't know any tongue but the Nether-Dutch.
If anybody asks me where I'm from, my first inclination is to say, 'Washington,' because that's where I grew up meaningfully.
My heritage, many generations back, is Dutch and it was fun to go where nobody asked me how to pronounce my name.