I've actually had this arguament...

Worryingly some bird in said this to me on a train from New York to Chicago back in summer 1998, having grown up in "Norf' Larnd'n" (North London) it's scary she couldn't spot the regional difference to her "Nu Yoik" (New York) accent...
(She also denied having an accent of any kind herself... "I DON'T HAVE AN ACCENT!"... err okay)

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(golddust I'm going to Hull... I accept that now, Fri 24 Feb 2006, 15:22, archived)

"I don't an accent"

( gaijintendo ITS IN THE HOUSE, Fri 24 Feb 2006, 15:23, archived)

heh
nice T-shirt
( Sexy Picard 2000, Fri 24 Feb 2006, 15:24, archived)

If she said she came from Norf Larndrn
she's obviously Welsh.
(Psychosomatic Tumor Laugh your life cause there ain't much to cry for, Fri 24 Feb 2006, 15:25, archived)

Ah but who took the pic?

( Shuya Nanahara Sayonara, Fri 24 Feb 2006, 15:25, archived)

Pic Source
Just clip art to illustrate the conversation.
Some American Bimbo accused me of faking a British accent, even though I had my passport and was blatently on holiday. (I have a strong London accent).
(golddust I'm going to Hull... I accept that now, Fri 24 Feb 2006, 15:29, archived)

Does any UK dialect pronounce "David Bowie"
as David "Bow (as in "take a bow" or "bow and stern")-ee"?

We had a crap radio DJ who called himself "Englishman" who I thought was faking his accent.
( setimret likes his metaphors mixed, not stirred, Fri 24 Feb 2006, 15:34, archived)

I might be odd
but I pronounce it like that. I do pronounce it Boe-ee too, but it just depends what I'm feeling.
( Piggers woo, married nearly 8 months, go team me!, Fri 24 Feb 2006, 15:55, archived)

whoosh!

( Sexy Picard 2000, Fri 24 Feb 2006, 15:34, archived)

It could have been...
...because you said "whatever" which is normally used by emo yanks.

However, it shows how stoopid the yanks are.
( undergroundmonkey Roy Rules!!, Fri 24 Feb 2006, 16:22, archived)

I don't know why, but...
They tend to think we're Aussies for some reason...
(I R Advertiser How can you live like this you're out of control?, Sat 25 Feb 2006, 14:42, archived)