accents

Today I took a taxi out to the airport to meet up with a friend who had a three hour layover on her way to London. I brought us a bit of breakfast and we chatted until she needed to go through security again. While chatting, she told me that I am starting to get an Irish accent. I of course wanted clarification. Apparently, the accent modification is two-fold. First, it is word choices and usage. These have been changing since I moved to Dublin. Second, it is slight pronunciation differences. That would be the vowels. I guess all the speech sound work that I do is rubbing off on my speech also!