I'm sort of baffled I didn't run into this sort of snobbery when I was working with Brits. One friend said they thought I was turning native - "you speak perfec

I'm sort of baffled I didn't run into this sort of snobbery when I was working with Brits. One friend said they thought I was turning native - "you speak perfect English!" - and I said, no, I'm just enunciating carefully and correctly with a bland mid-Atlantic accent. A lot of their interaction was probably with Americans from regions with stronger speech patterns. It's also notable I worked with mostly people living in SW England, Cornwall and such, and I noticed that their regional accent sounded damn close to American English, to the extent that I sometimes didn't notice it.