I volunteer at a local farmers’ market a couple of Saturdays a month. The booth I help with is for a nonprofit coffee shop that gives all of its proceeds to fighting human trafficking. It’s a win-win situation as far as I’m concerned: the coffee shop gets free staffing, and I get to play barista for the day and learn how to make different drinks.
Today when I showed up, there was a new guy, so I walked up to introduce myself. “Hi, I’m Aurora,” I told him, sticking out my hand for a handshake. “And you are…?”
“Mock,” he responded, filling in the rest of my sentence.
“Mock?” I repeated back to him, thinking it was an unusual name for a man who looked very much Caucasian.
The girls around me all started giggling, and I looked around in confusion as Mock sighed in mock exasperation. “I’ve lived ‘eeya foh ‘eeyas, and I still con’t seh mahyee ahs!”
“He’s from London,” a girl to my left told me with a smile.
“Oh. Nice to meet you, Mark.”
I found it fascinating that, had I heard Mark say even one sentence before hearing him pronounce his name, my brain would have subconsciously filled in his silent “r”. But because “Mock” was the first word I ever heard come out of Mark’s mouth, my brain didn’t have the context to know that he was speaking with what I would have perceived to be a British accent.
In any case, we all laughed “hod” – “Mock” included – as we “stotted” brewing the “dock” roast.
Authentically Aurora
Authentically Aurora 
I would respond in a British accent to you, but I’ve never been able to speak British. I did once hear a guy say that he needed to speak to our pots department, and I was confused, until I realized the he was from Boston and he was talking about our parts department.
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Hahaha, that’s fantastic. Or bloody hilarious, as one might say.
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It was so funny it made me pull over the cah.
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