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Or, and hear me out, the fake British accent never sounded British in the first place. And the adults in the story just can't tell accents apart?
Wisconsin accents can be like Welsh (not really but). Bag is pronounced Baig, Bagel is pronounced baggel. They be crazy up there.
Mostly /s
"I lived in New York, Troy, I know what a baggel is" -- Britta
Ever try to speak with an Irish accent only to end up morphing into Jamaican?
There's actually a strong connection between the Scottish accent and Jamaican. It's wild, but apparently true.
According to Wikipedia, that connection is as simple as Scottish slaveholders and overseers:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaican_Patois
I can do a variety of accents, but they all sound like a bad Scottish one.
No, not really. I have no reason to fake other people's accents.
They're from Wisconsin, anyone who went to a boarding school probably sounds "English"
Or, and hear me out, it's fake. Have you ever met one parent of a kindergartener, let alone a whole class of kindergarteners walking to school without their parents? Yeah me neither.
I live near a grade school in Germany and see it all the time.