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Reading this article on Ajarn.com the other day got me thinking about British English and American
English. Of course it's something we don't normally consider when we're at
home and surrounded by people who speak exactly the same way as us, but
it's something that you're constantly aware of when you live abroad (especially
so when you're an English teacher). As soon as you open your mouth- or attempt to write something on a whiteboard, you instantly mark yourself out. Of course this can be true at
home (whenever I went to Manchester, I always felt like a bit of an imposter),
but when you're abroad the attention is magnified. After all, accents can play a big part in how people perceive us.
