Ben
Native
Native noun - A usually longtime resident of a locality.
Both words in one sentence
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Ben Sisko went completely native over the course of the series, he started calling the wormhole aliens "Prophets", learned to read ancient Bajoran and bought land on Bajor to build a house.
Source: Going Native -
Ben Wright, who played the grandfather, was a London native, but his father was American.
Source: Series / The Monkees - Haruhi (voiced by Nagoya-native Aya Hirano) does call Kyon "aho" sometimes, as well as using some Kansai-ben grammar occasionally, but it's usually the "blink-and-you'll-miss it" type of usage.
Source: Kansai Regional Accent
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