Odd gift??? I can hear subtle difference in accents?

You do indeed seem to have a gift! : )

Depending on your interests and your present occupation, you could perhaps put it to part-time use in some way as in voice-coaching for the movies? Or even with the police or FBI to help identify suspects?

In any case, I hope that your enjoy your 'ear'!

There was a man once that came up to our family and told my father in law that he heard a Southeast Kansas accent from him and he told the rest of us that we were from Southern California. He also told me that my parents were not native English speakers and to my mother-in-law that her parents were from Oklahoma. It freaked us out, he was right on all accounts.. He said he was a linguist and could detect almost every accent, even the slight accents we picked up from our parents. Amazing...so now what are you going to do with this gift?

Wow. Why would you" try and stop it." You could become a voice coach! My husband has a gift for recognizing voices, he can hear the most subtle differeces. He can listen to any character and tell you who the actor is, he doesn't have to look. Whenever their is an actor in a show I ask him, "who is that? They sound familiar. And he instantly knows.

That's a pretty cool gift!

there was a special on pbs called "do you speak american" and the guy travelled the states pointing out dialects. it was cool.

You have a gift for accents.

That's kinda kewl , maybe you could do something with that?

How is this a question?