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* The British synth-soul group Alabama3 tends to affect southern US characters for their stage personas. The monologue at the beginning of the original version of "Woke Up This Morning" (better known, remixed, as the theme to [[The Sopranos]]) features lead singer Rob Spragg doing a very strange accent—a slightly exaggerated African American accent with painfully British enunciations. The way Spragg comes so close and fails to nail it has to fall into the [[Uncanny Valley]].

* The novel ''[[Room]]'' is written by an Irish author, but the main characters are meant to be American. While the author gets most of the basic stuff right (boots are trunks, lifts are elevators), her American idiom is still pretty off in many places.

 

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