Macedonia, OH native Brandon Saraniti grew up thinking he didn’t have an accent. But that all changed back in 2018, when he moved to Washington, D.C. for college. He was at a party and struck up a conversation with a girl named Amber. When he said her name, she winced.
“She’s like, ‘Say it again,’” Saraniti recounts. “I’m like, ‘Amber.’ And she was like, ‘Why are you saying it like that?’”
Once he came back home to Macedonia, he noticed the accent even more…