Siri in the US using UK English?

I'm a British speaker living in the US.
Question one: Siri seems to understand me much better when set to "English (United Kingdom)" than "English (United States)". Is that my imagination? Is Siri actually listening for a different pronunciation when set to UK English?
Second question: Assuming the above is true, it still doesn't help, because setting Siri to UK English kicks all the lookup features over to the UK ones.
Is there no way to have Siri set to listen for my British accent, but continue to use the US services? When set to US English, I seem to have much better success if I do a bad American impression when I speak to Siri – obviously a non-optimal workaround!

Ben, this is being reported by many expatriots living in the US it seems; I'm an Aussie and have the same problem.   It seems a very odd restriction, hopefully a lazy oversight on the part of the Siri engineers.
Probably the only way to get this corrected is to get as many people filing bug reports on this as possible.   Here's the bug-reporting link - http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html.
John.

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