[AnnieBL]

Oooh, Annie, I am dying to know who it was! You tease, you.
But thanks for seeing my point. I will keep working on it, but it is daunting. As Sarah observed, and doubtless knows from experience, it is really tough starting out and not feeling really silly (Kudos to you big time, Sarah!)
I really loved what Jeto was able to do in this regard in Dallas Buyers Club!!!

I'll give you a clue about the cousin. He started off as a Shakespearian actor, but is mainly remembered now as maybe one of the first of a long string of actors to depict a very well known fictional detective (in his case in a series of excruciatingly bad movies).

I've lived in Canada for nearly 40 years without losing much of my original accent, but my vocabulary and phraseology and sometimes pronunciation, tempo and spelling, have changed much more than my accent. Likewise 'feminine voice' also includes, as well as the strictly voice issues which I find so daunting, the use of femininisms (not to be confused with feminism!), different word choices, speech forms and sentence construction, as well as different cadences, and different ways of using speech for manipulation, query, and expressing emotion, few of which come naturally to those of us brought up as males.