Sometimes
When I am on my own and talking to people I will never talk to again (eg. a shop assistant in a shop I rarely visit, or a ticket inspector on a train) I put on a fake American accent for no good reason.

I'm from Yorkshire.
(Northern Lovely, Sun 16 Mar 2008, 20:35, 3 replies)

I bet it works a treat
When I was at Uni there were some morons from Yorkieland played american football and put on fake accents in an attempt to be more interesting to the exchange students. Yorkies trying to put on a yank accent sounds so pathetic it's hard not to laugh 8) Ey oop loov, howdy...
(Confused_Pedant, Sun 16 Mar 2008, 20:46, closed)

On occasion
When really drunk, I order my drinks with a soft northern Irish accent, just because I think that, when drunk, I'm awesome with accents. I also convince myself that the barmaid hasn't noticed, despite the fact that I ordered the previous 6 pints with a Sussex accent...
(joepublic 's opinion does not represent that of the public, Mon 17 Mar 2008, 0:01, closed)

Accent
I attended a school reunion a few years ago, and we all still spoke with Lancashire accents except one lad who had gone to live in America. When he arrived we all peed ourselves laughing at his explanation that he'd got sick of being asked if he knew people, because the Americans all think our island is very very little, so he'd gone native.
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