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Paige Harriss

Americans with the best British accents

Peter Dinklage as Tyrion Lannister in "Game of Thrones" Helen Sloan/HBO

It's the age-old question: Why are Americans so bad at British accents?

After all, the American accent continues to be mastered by other nations onscreen, from Brit Vivien Leigh's masterful Southern accent as Scarlett O'Hara in "Gone with the Wind" to the Oxford-born Hugh Laurie's role as the misanthropic medical genius on "House. Even Aussie Sarah Snook's performance as all-American media heiress Shiv Roy on "Succession" has fooled us all.

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