To find this a tad annoying. 36 year old American woman moves to the UK and begins developing a British accent overnight.

[Rainbunny]

To be clear, I like MM and and I'm very glad she married Harry but if she's really started with the whole accent thing it's silly. I'm afraid it comes across as a bit "put upon" and fake to me. She should be proud of her own accent, it's perfectly nice.

People "adopting" accents because they think it makes them sound better is just one of those silly things that bug me. I'm very sure I'm being petty about it but it annoyed me when Madonna did it as well. It's one thing to naturally develop an accent over the years but she's barely been here five minutes!

www.thecut.com/2018/07/meghan-markle-british-accent-video.html

MissConductUS, I think you mean General American, not Mid-Atlantic.

That's an interesting point. To my year, the GA accent is more inclusive of Midwestern and Western accents. The term general American accent has also been criticized as characterized as any American speech that excludes any pronunciation or vocabulary that is easily identified as regional. The term has largely been replaced by Standard American English. TBH, there is very little difference between SAE and MAE.

Americans don't seem to be annoyed or think of it as people copying their speech or making fun of them. They're just not insecure about that stuff.

Very true. I encounter so many people for whom English is a second language or who have strong regional accents that I hardly notice it. It's not seen as a class marker here at all.

ear, not year.

I need more coffee.