It is an ironic world in which Grace Megnet lives. She has spent her adult life as a champion of the English language. In fact, this December she will receive her master’s degree in English and she recently won first place for nonfiction in the annual Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers competition. Yet she says her accent betrays her to those who don’t really know her well enough. Often, she said, people believe she is less educated, less valuable, simply because of the Swiss German accent she’s carried since childhood. Read More