No doubt about it, Ben's got us on this one. For some mythical reason, American ladies turn into googly-eyed, golden retrievers when a British accent is in their presence.
"Put a British guy in a bar full of American women and let them hear his accent. Within one minute of him ordering, I'll bet you $100 one of the girls will approach him and ask him if he is British, followed by some story about a trip they may have been on or planned later that year to the UK," Elman says. "It is like a superpower that only the ex-pat Brits and Australians are aware of. I honestly have no idea as to why this is the case — but it is.