[Acrylic-bob]

I remember during the time I spent at Walter Smiths as an apprentice, we were quite fond of taking the mick out of Tim Wilkinson, the owners son, because he had swapped his own accent for BBC RP. Consequently, even though he used the word a lot, he could not say 'luv', as we pronounced it, he had to say 'laahrve'. We thought it was very funny at the time, because we thought him a bit of a tit and his wife was a snooty piece too, so it served him right.

So, it does not always follow that following local custom is the right thing to do, quite often you can paint yourself as even more of an outsider than you perhaps intended, luv.