After this Australian troper watched Across The Universe he decided he wanted to move to Liverpool, just so he could sound like Jim Sturgess.

This American troper who has no English blood nor have I ever been there sometimes just slips into a British accent when annoyed or pissed.

This troper has lived in Texas my whole life yet naturally have this weird some what light British accent. I try to hide it but sometimes I slip up like in school when I'm giving a speech or something and the everyone calls me out on it. It's really embarrassing.

This troper has a peculiar accent. While I've spent my life in the East Midlands my friends have noted that, when angry or drunk (and sometimes just randomly), I begin to sound as if I'm from Glasgow (my parents home city). I also get a bit of flack for pronouncing words 'wrong.' E.g. Bath, I pronounce with a longer 'a' sound. Same with castle and grass.

Why does this born-and-bred Australian troper ''naturally'' have an accent that makes Australians think she's English, Londoners she encountered while there unable to pin it as Australian, and described by an English friend as being like she moved from London to Melbourne 5 years ago? (And could that sentence be any more convoluted?)

She is afflicted with Foreign accent syndrome?

For what it's worth, this troper is a born and bred Brit whose compatriots constantly take him for an Aussie.

All right, you two, switch places. We apologize for the inconvenience. --God

This Australian troper has the same 'problem'. Except his parents are 100% Chinese. HilarityEnsues.

Ditto. This troper's professor (long story - lived in too many places to count) swore I was born and raised in England when the guy standing in front of him is quite clearly Chinese. While I love the Queen's English, I doubt the accent was that pronounced... Perhaps it's because I sound proper when speaking?

@/{{Seanette}} has never been outside the United States, but has been mistaken for British. By other Americans. See Main/MistakenNationality. Apparently, this happens to a lot of tropers, of various nationalities.

"Are you English" is the theme song of displaced non-Bostonian, non-Worcesterite Massholes. That's okay, you're a bunch of twangy pricks.

A sort of justified trope (or a subversion?) in the case of this displaced Masshole troper, whose mother is English.

Yeah, this troper has been mistaken for British, also. I've lived in the same place since I was five, and yet the locals say I have an accent...maybe it's just that I used to speak very "properly" when I was younger.

This troper was raised in the country and moved to the city, and so I have a combination drawl that people say sounds more like a New Zealand or South African accent. Weird stuff happens.

In response to the first troper - both this wiki and TheOtherWiki have told me its called ''"Cultivated Australian English"'', which makes it sound like some sort of gardening program. This Aussie Troper has it too. Along with two Glasgow-Scottish parents, who are (apparently) incomprehensible if they talk too fast. HilarityEnsues (but not as much as the Chinese-Australian above, I'm sure. I'm just thinking of the sitcom possibilities!).

Some people have trouble telling the difference. This troper can usually tell the difference between a British accent and an Aussie accent latter is sexier!!!), but the one time he met a South African he mistook it for British.

You wouldn't happen to be from South Australia - especially a private school in South Australia - would you? The South Australian accent naturally tends towards an English accent (in comparison to the east coast at least) and only gets plummier as your school fees go up. Also works for some Sydney schools.

Nup, Victorian, and I went to the local secondary college. I might start to blame watching too many Britcoms.

This Australian Troper has a very strong Australian accent, as is expected, but when drunk my voice slows down just a touch and all of a sudden I'm as British as a very British person.

While on tour in the USA this troper's party dined at a restaurant in Boston's historic quarter and were then given a tour of the building by their genial host. One American in the party was convinced the man's accent was British, even though all of the Brits could instantly tell it was American.

This troper known an Irish girl of Chinese descent who's regularly mistaken for American.

This troper can ''never'' pick out an Irish tourist. Their accents blend in uncannily.

Especially in Newfoundland.

Yeah. It's because we're secretly all ninjas.

Born and raised in California, mistaken for Irish by strangers. Justified because I watch too many Irish movies.

Born and bred in the Midlands of England, with the only major foreign influence having been the US (spent a year there all told) and maybe the merest jot of Irish, yet since I was a girl I've been accused of secretly being from South Africa. Uh... wuh?

How in the world do Americans confuse generic Brooklyn accents with generic British accents? I've encountered people talking about people with Brooklyn accents, yet they think they're British. Yeah, 'coz Brits tawk like dis, yanowhaddimean?

Mmm...sorry. I think you're mistaking "American" with "culturally ignorant twat." Yes, I know the rest of the world thinks they're interchangeable with one another, but they're, er, not.

This troper has an accent that is somehow-Irish, somehow-Texan. When speaking fast, nobody can determine ''what'' he is saying, much less from whence he hails.

This troper, born and raised in Texas, has been mistaken as having an Irish accent, a Scottish accent, a British accent, and, on occasion, a Russian accent, and during high school was often mistaken for an exchange student. Interestingly enough, recently others have told me I have the most Texas-sounding accent they have ever heard (perhaps I developed it later in life, in response to being constantly confused with other accents).

"American women like English accents". Officially Bollocks.

Accents aren't silver bullets. They give you a headstart sometimes but you still have to do some work.

And yet somehow they still arouse interest. Officially not officially bollocks. Your sample size is evidently too small.

This male troper would like to put forth the theory that an "English accent" automatically adds +5 to cuteness/hotness/sexiness/whatever you'd classify the girls/guys you are attracted to.

This female troper has seen at Dragon* Con a trio of girls listening to an Englishman blather on about Judge Doom or some comic only to later admit that they had no idea what he was talking about. They only cared that he was ''talking''.

This male -Scottish- troper will freely admit that women with slightly posh english accents make him go a bit weak at the knees.

This male English troper also finds a Scottish accent attractive for a woman. Fair exchange, I guess.

Seconded by this English troper; there is nothing at all wrong with a Highlands trill.

Any UK accent (English, Welsh, Irish or Scottish) constitutes FetishFuel for this American troper, so take from that what you will. Needless to say, I'm ecstatic that BBC is now available on American cable.

Seconded for this American troper - and the effect extends to Australian and New Zealand accents as well. I plan on studying abroad in London; I am under strict orders from friends not to fall in love because they'd never see me again.

And faking an English accent has gotten this troper by pretty well

This female American troper once met a fellow in a bar who, in addition to having a God-awful opening line, continued talking to her when she showed no interest. After a while, she noticed that he had a Scottish accent. Suddenly, and without any conscious decision to do so, she became way more attracted to him. Definitely not bollocks.

Why do people refer to the upper class English accent as "a British accent"? I mean, sure, it's ''a'' British accent, but when people say somebody has a British accent, why can't they mean a Welsh accent or a Yorkshire accent or whatever?

The fiftieth annual ''Name-This-Shit-And-Get-It-Over-With'' was boycotted by Britain for including the word "shit" in the name. So when it came time to name the accents, we had to rely on outdated information. Its AllThereInTheManual.

The same reason a British person might refer to a Texan twang as a default 'American Accent'. Very different sounds can seem very similar to those who don't here them often.

It's probably because most of the accents in Britain have a recognisable name (cockney, pikey, Scot, Welsh etc) but those that are more similar just get referred to as "a British accent" by those who can't distinguish them. People don't know the exact name so they go for a broader term. Just like how people refer to Chinese, Japanese and Koreans as "Asian" unless they know where they're from and then refer to them as "Chinese", "Japanese" or "Korean" (or one of the other nationalities).

Also, many people, including this troper until she was corrected by a Scot, think that England, Britain and the UK are synonymous. As to why a particular English accent is "the" accent *shrug* I blame TV.

How are there so blooming ''many'' British accents? I mean, it's a ''fraction'' of the geographical size of the United States, but only total pedants can distinguish Americans by region more finely than "South", "New York", "Boston" and "everywhere else", whereas I, an American, can think of six British accents I could identify instantly.

Longer geographical histories in those areas. English speakers have been in the British Islands for a hell of a lot longer than they've been in America, so regional dialects have had more time to develop and differentiate over time.

Also, the creation of mass media is having a homogenising effect on language, accents and vocabulary in Britain - I imagine that a similar effect would find greater purchase in a still-young, technologically advanced country like the US.

Mark Twain would disagree.

It would seem that this very wiki would disagree as well.

Geographical size is kind of a red herring here: the UK has 246 people per square kilometer, Ireland has 59 people per square kilometer and the US only has 21 people per square kilometer. That is a lot of people squeezed into quite a small place and combined with the regional dialects mentioned above, means you get a lot of people using a lot of different accents.

Australia has 3 people per square kilometer and just the one accent (with minor variations depending on the area).

The North-South divide is a contributing factor here. Yes, America, you have one too, and a civil war to prove it, but I doubt you've had as much time with it being a different country and then more time with no way to travel but foot and sheepback. Not considering eyewear as punctuation helps, too.

This troper would now like to apologise for blowing one giant raspberry at America, but it had to be done.

Americans think a hundred years is a long time, while the British think a hundred miles is a long way. Britain ''is'' a small country, but the most of us (well, me at least) think of it as bigger. "Four hours on a train for a day trip? You must be kidding."

This Troper is English and finds it exceptionally irritating when people describe the generic accent as 'British'. Britain includes Scotland, Wales and part of Ireland, none of which sound a bloody thing like the generic 'British' accent. Also, I have an accent very close to the generic one, so why the hell do Americans think I'm Australian?

Some people have trouble with telling accents apart. I have no trouble telling the difference between a Scottish accent and other English speaking accents. I guess that is what 2 years of taking help desk from around the world and 1 year of listening to said calls can help you with that.

Sorry about that. We Americans are terrible about demonyms, particularly within the Isles. According to the average [=EagleLander=], Sean Connery is Scottish, while Liam Neeson and Pierce Brosnan are both Irish. Anthony Hopkins, Hugh Laurie, and all those Harry Potter kids are British. About the only Englishman you're likely to hear about in the States is David Beckham. We're still not entirely sure that Wales exists. And I'd also like to apologize for any damage your forehead may have done to your keyboard just now.

This troper has lived in NZ her entire life. This hasn't stopped people from thinking she's American.

This Troper was raised in an African-American family in the American South. Not the Deep South, mind you, just Virginia and North Carolina. Despite all those life-long influences, one summer of doing nothing but watching Yu-Gi-Oh The Abridged Series, Monty Python, and Zero Punctuation has somehow irreversibly changed his accent to that of a Brit. The hell?

This Troper grew up in the UK in Birmingham then moved to fenland near the end on primary school, but my accent reflects non of this. Everyone assumes I'm posh due to the accent. I blame my parents for making me watch Schools programmes from birth.

This Troper has a speech impediment that makes his "R"s difficult to pronounce (added irony: My name starts with that letter) and has been called English, Irish, British, Australian, even French. His actual British friend reassure him it doesn't remotely sound British.

@/{{Morgulion}} is often mistaken for British by anyone who doesn't know him. He's a Russian, and lives in the States.

This troper has been mistaken for an English chap on more than one occasion, despite being a United States native my entire life. This has happened even after people have heard me speak.

I'm from Rochdale (of WaterlooRoad fame - familiar enough with the local dialect that I appreciate that they have to cast East Mancunians as a reasonable approximation so they don't need subtitles) but my mum's from Hereford and my dad from South Manchester. Add to that the fact that I've also lived in York, Hull, Poznań (Poland) and Norwich and my accent has so many influences that nobody can tell where I'm from with more precision than "kind of northern". I've been mistaken for almost any British accent you care to name, including Scottish, Welsh and Irish (indeed, once got approached by an Irish man in a bar declaring that it's nice to have another Irish person here!), and various foreign nationalities including French, German, American, Australian and South African. I've grown to be amused watching people guess where I'm actually from.

This troper is very much Finnish but with exceptional (read: compared to the peers she knows) skill in English. A British buddy of hers remarked that her accent when speaking English is remarkably Irish/Irish-American, which this troper finds very odd since she herself would've pegged it more of the "ranging from posh upper class British to ungodly mix of standard Midwest American, Southern drawl and then some"-variety. But apparently her twin brother has had a Brit mention the very same thing to him as well, so either it's genetic, linked to pronounciation of Finnish or listening to English lesson tapes in both standard British and standard American for close to a decade actually generates an honest-to-god Irish accent.

This troper is part British but doesn't use the accent naturally. My accent is rather plain, but I do use the "posh" British accent when some people ask me to. Hilarity ensues when I mix it with some native accents, which are as far from the British accent I use as you could imagine.

This troper, who has never actually considered himself to be British at all, was recently told that a friend thought he had a British accent. The fact that my recent favorite character has a British accent as well is making me think I should really stop seeing the movie it's from... apparently it's infecting my brain.

This troper has lived in London for all her life, and speaks mostly in a Cockney accent (yes, adding 'innit' onto the end of every other sentence as well) but sometimes speaks in a Canadian, some-type-of-American, Scottish or Liverpudlian accent. Considering her parents are both 100% Pakistani, this is quite odd.

This troper is, of all things, Canadian, and through her short life (nearly 14 years by now), she has been asked if she was British or Australian over 47 and 38 times, respectively. Yes, I've kept count, but I gave up a while ago. Hell, even I've started to notice it, although more so when flustered/angry/etc. I still have yet to figure out why, especially since it doesn't distinctly sound like either.

This editor feels for you,'cept it's a little closer to home - since moving to England (Manchester) from the coast of Antrim in Northern Ireland, 44 people have mistaken me for Scottish. Worse, only the Scottish or those who have heard Northern Irish can tell what I'm saying. Getting a bus in Manchester is frustrating: #QUOTE#'''What I think I'm saying:''' University,please. #QUOTE#'''What they hear:''' Yuunaighvesity,playzz. #QUOTE#'''''Everyone:''''' What?

This troper has been in The Midlands all her life, yet doesn't have that strong of an accent. Her uni mates have noticed her go properly "Brummie" on many occasions (when talking to her parents on the phone, when singing, when getting riled up, etc.), but otherwise it's heavily softened.

This troper was born in England, but I believe myself to be Welsh, having lived in Wales since I was 6. Unfortunately I've got a pretty strong accent.

This troper has that cultivated Australian accent talked about earlier on the page, except leaning even more towards English-sounding because his mother is English. In addition, every fake accent he uses is British Isles (Scottish, Northern Irish, Jafaican London and some kind of generic Northern English).

This troper has "blended" a very queer mix of accents on my own. Part RP, a lot of Aussie, a little slang, and suddenly, when I watched Monty Python's Life of Brian, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, or even My Fair Lady...Apparently this troper has adopted the Cockney accent perfectly and entirely unintentionally.

This Scandinavian troper, who speaks fluent "standard US" English, got a thorough exposure to the many accents of British English while working for the EU. It made him wonder whether the Glaswegian and Belfast dialects belong to the same language, because they were extremely hard to decipher. (The most crisp pronunciation seems to be western Canadian.)

This troper is another weird one. Although I was born and have lived in South London my entire life, most people who meet me for the first time seem to think that I come from other other part of England entirely - ranging from relatively close guesses (such as North London) to much further ones (Sunderland/Newcastle area), or even some that are plain weird guesses (such as Yorkshire - which I've never sounded like at all). Not helped by picking up my father's accent through unconscious imitation (and his parents are from Sunderland, although he was born in Malta and lived in London from age 8 onward). Accent usually varies between RP/Generic South-Eastern England/Estuary English and North-Eastern (eg. Geordie/Newcastle or Mac'am/Sunderland), with constant switches between soft a's ("ar" sounds like in past), and hard a's (like sand), and some that are more permanently mangled (such as always without fail, pronouncing the E in "Them" more closely as an UH or OO)...even, in extreme circumstances, I have been mistaken for not being British ''at all'', being asked once if I was in fact maybe Arabic, and another time if I was South African. Huh?

In fact, the more I think about my pronunciation, the more I realised that my vowels are mumbled in general, something picked up from my father's side's North-Eastern accents. Such as pronouncing Sunderland: An RP-English pronunciation would be ''SUN-der-land'', but the North-Eastern pronunciation is much closer to ''SUN-lnd''. Similarly RP-English ''LUN-duhn'' tends to slip closer to ''LN-DN'' or ''LND-NN'' (with the vowels almost entirely missing). Just like these (and others), I also drop the E from "Them", creating ''THM''.

This troper is often told by american/canadian girls that he has a sexy/cute accent. This is despite where he grew up. He puts it down to a combination of his mother's yorkshire accent (which, incidentally, has absolutely destroyed his chance to recognise yorkshire accents) and trying like crazy not to speak like a local to the thames valley, despite being one.

This Troper is Scottish (Part English, But has lived in scotland for all his life) But for some reason speaks Upper class Kings English...

This Troper lived in Swindon as a wee child, and now will slip back into an English accent when she is very angry, very tired, or sick. And was held up as an example of English vowel pronunciation in her second year linguistics class every time. And the way she pronounces some of her words makes people think she is English. She is, in fact, Canadian.

This troper is Swedish, but lived in the UK for three years while very young, and still speaks English with a perfect RP accent. When I say perfect, I mean mistaken-for-Londoner-by-Londoners-perfect. It's kind of annoying at times, since I haven't spoken English as part of my everyday life for the past 17 years, and my vocabulary is pretty far from perfect.

This troper's first language wasn't english, the most he's seen of Britain is when he went to London for about 4 days when he was 8, but because the language was taught to him with all-british material and he's a big fan of Series/DoctorWho among other trademark shows, you might say he possesses a "natural" british accent. Shame he rarely ever gets to put it to practice.

This Canadian troper only speaks with a british accent when angry or reading Shakespeare. It has been described as very odd in the past.

This (English) troper speaks with Received Pronunciation. In an area where nobody else does.

This (English) Troper was on a ski-ing holiday in Canada. I was talking to my mum, and this woman stopped us and asked "Are you from England?" After she left, I asked my mum "How the hell did she know?!" My mum merely replied "Our accents gave us away."

This (English) troper grew up in the South East - very generic English accent with a slight London edge - with a Mancunian dad, and goes to university in the South West, and has close friends from all around the nation. Consequently, my accent veers wildly, especially with the 'a' sound in words like 'last', 'Bath' etc (sometimes long, sometimes short). Can also do a pretty decent Mancunian accent when pissed

This American troper does not have an English accent; she just speaks quickly and precisely, which is enough for most people she meets to incorrectly assume she is British. Justified in that she was practically raised on the BBC and learned to speak/read by listening to her father read Tolkien with an affected accent. Recently, she was relating a story about her roommate believing she was from England for two weeks to a group of aquaintences; they all sheepishly confided that they had thought the same. It gets really irritating at times, particularly when shop clerks stop and ask me to say 'wanker' or 'bollocks' for their amusement.

This troper is South African, but I've often been told that my accent sounds British or Australian. It's actually somewhat justified in that I pick up methods of pronunciation quite quickly, and I just like the way that Brits and Aussies pronounce certain words. I purposely pick up bits from foreign accents as a result, and I have what I term a "melting-pot" accent.

This English troper sounds quite posh most of the time, but she skips her t's and h's a lot, which somehow makes people think she's American. It's just me being lazy, though. Some people used to take the piss (deaf twatheads), so I've decided to try and enunciate my words properly, and eventually I'll do it without thinking.

This also English troper is considered to have quite a 'posh english' accent by her friends, but she has yet to meet an American who doesn't think she is Australian.

Her friend also had an interesting experience (with the same accent), in which someone from only a few miles away was convinced she was Irish. The only time she sounds Irish is when she says the word 'Irish'

This troper is from Birmingham, but picked up a South Wales accent while living in Swansea. I can also speak Scouse when drunk, since my mom's from there

This troper is from Reading and has a very Readingsian accent. At times when she is mistaken for having a posh accent, she puts on two (masculine and feminine) depending on the matter to exaggerate this mistake. However, because she's put them on so much, these two put-on-posh have merged into her normal accent.

It really doesn't help that this troper's boyfriend puts on an Irish accent at times just to spice things up in conversations (incidentally, he is quarter-Irish).

This American-raised English troper has a completely bizarre accent due to desperate attempts not to sound like an American, a mixture of American and English turns of phrase (as well as some that are just odd), an idiotic attempt when thirteen or so to sound like Rose Tyler which leaves a chavvish tone lingering in her speech no matter how hard she tries to lose it, and some distinctly Californian/ valley girl speech patterns. It's gotten to the point at which she doesn't sound American to Americans and doesn't sound English to the English, and both groups have a tendency to assume she's faking one or the other. Though they tend to be up in the air as to which she's faking. She's trying to train her voice into RP to get rid of the ambiguity but it's ''much more difficult than it should be.''

I live in Nottinghamshire, a county slap bang in the middle of England. Nottinghamshire has a slightly grating accent, so it doesn't help that I have a really, really thick one - and that's when I'm ''trying'' not to sound rough. If I talk fast, I slip into my natural, Cockney-slash-Nottinghamshire accent. Which, as y'k'n imag'ne, don't sound t'great when I'm talkin' to m'elders, like m'gran or m'teachas.

This troper is from Newark, and Nottinghamshire accents are interesting in themselves, since there are at least three of them in a fairly small county. Specifically, Newark, Nottingham itself and Mansfield. Newark sounds more pikey than the rest, Nottingham sounds like what you describe and Mansfield sounds a bit like South Yorkshire.

This troper has lived in Gloucestershire all his life. He has no accent, and for some reason despite being able to imitate most non-English accents has a total inability to copy English ones.

I'm also in Gloucestershire and have absolutely no accent (It's not RP, it's just 'English'), however, I can copy English accents and when I want to, I can speak in real broad Glo'shire accent. It's great for joking about the Bill Bailey West Country Accent skit though...

Born, raised, and lived in Florida (aka so far Deep South that we're out the other side) my whole life. I generally have no trace of a southern accent. I'm not sure what accent people usually think I have, but I have been mistaken for having that generic English accent. And when I speak German, I've been told I have a very good southern German accent by my native-speaking German professor (who also spoke French, and who's last name was awfully close to meaning "Talkative"). Of course, to make matters far, far worse, I have a tendency to rather quickly adopt both the speaking habits and slang of people I'm around. Unfortunately, for all my sliding scale of accent, I have ridiculous trouble understanding even moderate accents, and usually have to read lips to understand people. Phone calls suck.

This troper has lived in Oklahoma for the vast majority of his life (A six-month time span was spent in Oregon) and yet he is constantly thought of as British. Even Australian friends of his thinks he's British.

This British Troper moved to California when he was about 10 and now has an accent that is an odd mix of both. British people say he sounds like a yank but Americans say he sounds British. In general his pronunciation is British (closest to Estuary) but his word choice is very Californian.

This Troper has a ridiculously posh English accent that sounds highly out of place in Scotland. It's almost comical, and she can't seem to talk in any other way...

This (Finnish) Troper was once told, over a voip chat with multiple people, that he sounded like a scouser. Not having the faintest idea of what a scouser is, he assumed it was an insult. Hilarity Ensued.

This troper is a Floridian. And as any Floridian will tell you, we have some of the most neutral english accents in ''the world'', and yet I somehow get asked if I'm british half the time for the way I speak. I have ''no idea'' why people think this. What, is it the way I pronounce words, of something?

I'm a Californian,but have somehow mange to get an accent that sounds British despite living in California all my life. Also i have a lisp that makes me can't say R's right so i sound more Britsh and doesn't help that i only really watch British shows...

This troper has parents from Manchester and Leeds, but has lived in Swansea for most of his life. The result is an accent that simultaneously has flat vowels and a singsong lilt.

This Troper is a native of Brooklyn who speaks with an unmistakeable American Accent and has been living in Ireland for years.Yet I've been mistaken for English on three separate occasions

I, Yowuza, was born in London, lived in Surrey until the age of 3 when my family moved to Somerset, and I stil don't have the slightest trace of a WestCountry accent. Even though that's partly because most people in school seemed to have a very weak accent. To sum up my accent, I'd say it's a mixture of Esturary and RP.

This troper (Tolgron) speaks with a rather bog-standard London accent, despite the fact that he's only ever lived in the East-Midlands and spent most of his life in Kent. This is probably because he moved to Kent at a young age, and a Kentish accent doesn't really exist anymore (guess which one has taken its place...).

This troper's father scares people just with his English Accent. Even after living here for over 25 years he still has his accent.

I (a Brit) always get confused when people on YouTube comment on a British vlogger's videos saying that he has "a gorgeous/sexy/beautiful accent". It's just really weird because I hear that accent everyday, so it's nothing special. Similiarly, when I was across the pond round at a friend of my cousin's house, his mother said to me "I just love your accent! It's so beautiful!" I didn't really know what to say to that.

I've been told a number of times that I have a really weird accent - probably due to my father being Welsh and my mother being Scouse. I also live in Nottinghamshire, but close enough to the border of Derbyshire (which has a different accent to Nottinghamshire) that I can say I live in Derbyshire. So I'm a mix of 4 different accents.

This tropette is the granddaughter of a proud Scotsman who served all over Europe in the RAF and thus gave his children vague accents (not putting this trope cause he's not violent and not from Glasgow), the great-granddaughter of a French person, is from Lancashire and damn proud of it, yet people say she's from Oxford, of all places. She also sometimes randomly broadens her very much so Lancashire accent when she's around her grandparents/mother/for no reason, i.e., saying "Y'reet?" in lieu of "How are you?".

This troper has an East Coventry accent (slightly Estuary English) with hints of Glaswegian from my father and Cockney from my mother. Then I moved to Hartlepool at 7. The Hartlepudlian accent hasn't had much of an effect though.