Wisconsin accents can be like Welsh (not really but). Bag is pronounced Baig, Bagel is pronounced baggel. They be crazy up there.

Mostly /s

Ever try to speak with an Irish accent only to end up morphing into Jamaican?

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.

one of my most cherished books is a scots translation of winnie the pooh, it sparks joy

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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.

it's the more plausable theory

What the dickens! you may be on to something.

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 have an amalgamated accent, like most terminally online people do.

It's clearly Germanic based, but it's neither a Danish, German, Dutch or Swedish accent. It's just international with Germanic roots.

"Ope..."

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.

Well we can probably deduce that it wasn't welsh due to the lack of consonants.

Edit: realised seconds after posting that welsh is probably considered a language.

No, there's a crossing guard! Didn't you read that part?

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.

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.

There's a crossing guard with an accent.

Affect can be a noun, and is probably intended in this case

lol @herbalgamer@sh.itjust.works already went through all this but I guess their comment is folded in because of all the downvotes they got, so you had to start it again?

I have nothing against people asking about words, but to do it in such an arrogant way and be wrong, ...

edit: yep, they completely edited their comment. No more insults, no more dismissal.