That's cute. It's funny how being nice and caring for kids can have a lasting effect on them
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:
I can do a variety of accents, but they all sound like a bad Scottish one.
They're from Wisconsin, anyone who went to a boarding school probably sounds "English"
"Oh bother." - Said in the accent of a pudgy stuffed bear
one of my most cherished books is a scots translation of winnie the pooh, it sparks joy
"Fake British accent". It's just a Wisconsin accent...
When I moved to Los Angeles from N WI people would always ask where I was from; sometimes saying "no" when I said Wisconsin. When I married my wife, somebody at work said it was just so I could get a green card.
That is so absurd it's hilarious. I can't think of what it is about Wisconsin that people are so disbelieving.
You don't know Winconsiners, Wisconsinites, whatever. They have standing blood alcohol level of .14 at all times.
You don't need a green card for Wisconsin, you need a green card from Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Yoopers don't count as Americans.
I was kind of hoping the toddlers would create an ultra polite aristocracy as things escalated.
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Alternative hypothesis: reincarnation.
The entire kindergarten class is reincarnated elderly British pensioners.
it's the more plausable theory
What the dickens! you may be on to something.
And the rest of the world subjected to American accents in TV and movies.
People are weird about accents. I only wish there was more variety in American accents, if anything. Some of them are charming.
English, simplified
I think they'd only really need to be worried if they start apologising to inanimate objects.
"Ope..."
Wtf is a British accent, you'll find no other country in the world with more accents
Americans have really shitty ears. Any white person who sounds anywhere between "Chimney Sweep in Mary Poppins" and "King George in Hamilton" is automatically classified as British.
And yes, I know both of those characters are originally portrayed by American performers.
Black, Indian, and Asian people with a British accent make our brains explode.
Probably their approximation of received pronunciation.
Very sensible toddlers.
...the toddlers are crossing the street by themselves in this story?
No, there's a crossing guard! Didn't you read that part?
Yeah that seems weird. A toddler is basically a 2-year-old, and as the term says, they're not so good at walking by themselves.
Maybe OOP uses the term differently.
The rest of the story: absolutely feasible. And finding the origin can be fun.
I walked to school with other kids starting in kindergarten, when I was five. But, I don't think five years old is a "toddler".
At the slightly busy road in front of the school there were swing out stop signs. I've never seen them anywhere else. Sixth graders manned the stop signs. They stood on the curb and pulled on a handle that would swing the overhead stop sign out over the road. A third kid walked out with a handheld stop sign after the cars stopped and then the kids crossed.
Something happened and that ended. They switched to an adult crossing guard. I'm guessing it was something bad.
Tell your folks I says hi
Maybe just Traditional English is in their genes from a few generations back...
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