I've been here a year and my local friends now know what I'm saying but I worked in an office for years so can put on a telephone voice to be understood. My OH however partners an English guy so still speaks with a broad Welsh accent and can only just been understood.

I recently started work in a office here, thinking I would be ok because of my telephone voice, I soon learned that it's not enough just to enunciate, as a result I hear myself slipping into "an accent" whatever that is. I am the only British person working in the hotel but there are many African and Asian people, my office is staffed with Canadians and the majority of callers are North American.

I laugh when answering the phone and the person on the other side hesitates, some have commented that they thought they'd dialled and overseas number

Not sure what will happen when we eventually get there,

i always tend to pick up the accent of whomever im talking to, i don't mean to i hope i don't loose my English accent,
Not sure how OH will go on i can't even understand him half the time from up north, im from down south