my voice confuses people...

at work i spend a lot of the day talking to customers on the phone. because almost everyone that calls has an accent, that isn't american, it's difficult for me to understand a lot of what people are saying. and since i'm often taking down addresses for deliveries i need to make sure i'm writing down the correct information and have to ask people to spell words out for me to get them right. so, it's funny that twice in the past week when people have been spelling names out for me, they have commented that i must have already known how to spell that name because it's IRISH! both times i have been taken aback, i didn't really know what the person meant the first time it happened because i know i don't sound irish! there's an irish girl at work who will also tell anyone that asks that i don't sound irish in the slightest! she's thinks it's pretty amusing that someone would mistake my accent for an irish accent...she insists that english people are stupid and can't tell the difference between irish and american ;)