Take a look over here, boys and girls.
It is true that there are many Anglophile Americans (“Amurkins”), but it is also true that – as an Americophile British person (“Brit”) – the Merry Pahppins school of American actorly attempts at British accents does not really appeal to me.
Strangely, I’ve only encountered (the occasional) smart, well-informed, Europhile Amurkins attempting such shenanigans. But trust me: if you are a smart, well-informed Amurkin who helps counter the stereotypically negative foreign (“fourn”) image of the States, then affecting a “cor blimey Merry Pahppins” inflection simply reverses any progress you might otherwise make.
To quote Mr. Art Rat, who accepted my own contribution to the above-linked post, such conversations always end the same way: “Chuck… I’m not talking to you.”
