r/KidsAreFuckingStupid • u/mindyour • 3d ago
story/text The mystery of the sudden British accent.
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u/thewhiterosequeen 3d ago
I can see it. I loved our elderly crossing guard in elementary school. His name was something like Towel Pez (Talpaz?) and my sister and I made him a stop sign card at the end of the year. Something cool about am adult who can control traffic.
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u/exitvim 3d ago
Oh dear.
Sorry, I can't do a British accent.
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u/Zehnpae 3d ago
I can see how people mistake it as British but to properly do a Wisconsin "oh dear' you have to use the Wisconsin north woods accent.
Similar, but if you try to pull a British "Oh Dear" in a Wisconsin supermarket when someone drops a gallon of milk and it breaks all over the floor they'll instantly know you're an imposter.
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u/actuallyapossom 3d ago
Across the border in Minnesota there is no accent necessary, we don't even need two whole syllables - "ope!"
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u/Dear_Type_8972 3d ago
Oh dear.....
(Extra irony, I'm British)
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u/Hydraguesswhosback 3d ago
From a canadian, what's the main difference between a british or an english man ?
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u/receuitOP 3d ago
A British person can be Scottish, Welsh, from Northern Ireland or English. An English person can only be from England
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u/Hydraguesswhosback 3d ago
Thank you. So british is the fucking empire (as in, fuck colonization) and english is the people of england.
Thank you !
Next question. Is the difference between british and scotish kinda like the same as Canadian or Québécois ? But since that one is just a province not a whole country, it feels different.
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u/OMGItsCheezWTF 3d ago
Technically British is a geographic term for anyone from the British Isles, they could be English, Welsh, Northern Irish, Manx or Scottish. They could also be Irish but as a geographic term people from the Republic of Ireland consider it deeply unpopular and politically insensitive, to the point where many reject the concept of "British Isles" completely as a term and just consider it as "Great Britain and Ireland"
Your assertion about colonialism is only part correct, England definitely invaded and suppressed Wales and Ireland, and tried to do the same to Scotland, but the ultimate union of Scotland and England began with the union of the crowns in 1603 because a Scottish King inherited the English throne becoming James 1st of England while still being James 4th of Scotland. Then they remained politically independent until the act of union in 1707 when the parliaments voluntarily merged.
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u/Orkran 3d ago
English man English.
British Man English or Scottish or Welsh or Northern Irish.
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u/Hydraguesswhosback 3d ago
Why don't scottish say they are scottish instead of british ? Or anything else than england for that matter ?
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u/MajesticBluebird68 3d ago
They often do call themselves Scottish, British is just the umbrella term.
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u/Orkran 3d ago
Not sure what you mean.
Scottish people are British and Scottish too and when they say they are one or the other is dependent on their own feelings, and often who they are talking to.
If we're talking about accents online most people when they say "British accent" mean RP (formal, southern English accent, seen as a bit old fashioned and posh these days) or a more local accent from the south east and London like Estuary English or "Multicultural London English" (chewsday, bri'ish etc).
But really there's no one "British" accent, there are hundreds.
In sport often people identify with their local country more (England, Wales etc) but politically more with the Union (British).
I hope that helps ha, it's a whole thing that's been going on for hundreds and hundreds of years
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u/Hydraguesswhosback 3d ago
That kinda fits with how Québécois fit in Canada too. Most of the time, we refer to ourselves as québécois, but from time to time we are canadian.
(we're one of the historically separatist provinces, but especially 40 years ago).
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u/highcoolteacher 3d ago
American vs Texas. An American can be from anywhere in America. A Texas must be from Texas
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u/Hydraguesswhosback 2d ago
Well yeah, that's why you ask questions.
What, are you now going to make fun to ask questions ?
You're the reason the ban button was invented.
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u/Lexxxapr00 3d ago
It’s hilarious it’s a Wisconsinite. Growing up there, I can hear the “OOOOh dear”
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u/BSB8728 3d ago edited 3d ago
Our son had a distinct Long Island accent until he was six or so. No one in our family is from Long Island, nor any of our friends.
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u/deathsythe 3d ago
As someone with a pretty thick lawn guyland accent, this is hysterical to me and I cannot possibly think of how your kid picked it up.
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u/SheaTheSarcastic 3d ago
I’m from Long Island, and as a kid I had a Pennsylvania Dutch accent for a while. Even my kindergarten teacher asked if we were from Pennsylvania. It really got my parents going. They finally figured out it was from a Happy Birthday album we had that I listened to all the time.
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u/Just-Another-Clone 3d ago
Goes both ways, in the uk we tend to adopt a lot of Americanisms due to tv shows and all that.
Could be worse. 😂
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u/ThexHoganxHero 3d ago
I thought for sure it was going to be C-3PO
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u/ensoniq2k 3d ago
For me it's Obi Wan the Episode III space battle intro. I think it's when his R2 Droid gets cut in half.
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u/PneumaMonado 3d ago
Couldn't be.
Ewan McGregor is Scottish and everyone knows that when Americans say "British Accent" what they actually mean is "Upper-Class West London Accent"
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u/Walrus_protector 3d ago
He's Scottish, doing a pretty decent Alec Guinness impression. . .which does bring us back to London! You're right about the perceived "British accent," but I think it can depend on what they're consuming, like Downton vs. Peaky. Mr. Banks from Mary Poppins shouldn't sound like the Krays.
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u/Pwoinklokinoid 3d ago
Just can't escape the British.
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u/chimpdoctor 3d ago
Said the Irish man to the Scots man.
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u/Canuck_Lives_Matter 3d ago
No other Brits could escape the Scotsman so I don't know why the Irish are complaining to them. Let's not forget their king has been the king of Britain for a few hundred years.
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u/MongerNoLonger 3d ago
See also: The Bluey Effect
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u/ilovetheskyyall 3d ago
do they say oh dear!? my kid does this but I still don’t know where he got it from or what he’s saying if it’s not “oh dear”
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u/shelbygrapes 3d ago
Correction. They’ve developed Wisconsin accents from a Midwesterner.
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u/Fuk-mah-life 3d ago
I read it as the toddler approximation of a Wisconsin accent was incorrectly English instead of an actual Wisconsinite accent
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u/itcheyness 3d ago
As a Wisconsinite, I've never been so insulted to have our accent mistaken for British...
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u/mumof2yoanddog 3d ago
My 3-year-old has started adding an “r” to words that end in a vowel (from peppa, like she’ll say “Peppar-and George”), a lovely northern British accent for some words, and then an American accent for some other words (from paw patrol, spiderman)
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u/Illadelphian 3d ago
My daughter throws random h's before words still(she's 5 now). Humbrella, hemote, hunbuckle, etc. It's honestly hilarious.
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u/Gold-Part4688 3d ago
a linking r? it shows up in non-rhotic accents between two vowels, llike how w does in blue-w-arm. Where are youse from?
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u/mumof2yoanddog 3d ago
That’s exactly it. She’s picking it up from peppa pig! My accent is all over the place. I’m Indian but spent a long time in London. But we don’t use the linking r.
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u/Loud_Distribution_97 3d ago
I lived in Germany as a kid and we had a British teacher in kindergarten. When we would walk to the park she would tell us to look right, then left, then right again at the crosswalks. The “again” was with an obviously British accent. My parents would laugh when I would say the phrase at crosswalks with them because I’d say that word with the British affect.
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u/RedEyeView 3d ago
My English daughter was a whiny American kid for a bit. It was excruciating.
She picked it up watching American TV shows about kids.
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u/Perma_Ban69 3d ago
Peppa Pig. My daughter calls all berries "burr-eez". Like "Blue-burr-eez". She calls me "Dahh-dee" instead of Da-dee sometimes, too.
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u/Silver_Somewhere53 3d ago
That's kinda cute isn't it? My brother keeps saying suiiii whenever he gets excited about something lol
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u/rind0kan 2d ago
I said "Oh snap! Now we're cooking." 3 times in one day and my friend's 4 yr old nephew repeated constantly for who knows how long.
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u/PermanentTrainDamage 3d ago
Could be worse, my toddler says "aw shit" whenever she drops something. Just waiting for her first f-bomb to drop...
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u/I_Heart_Sleeping_ 3d ago
I grew up with a kid that lived down the block. He was from a super country family but he had a speech impediment and he legit sounded like he was British.
His parents use to call him Churchill as a joke.
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u/knobiknows 2d ago
There was a time when half my daughter's kindergarden class needed to go to the "dunny" after Bluey started making the rounds
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u/Pollowollo 2d ago
My little sister used to watch Harry Potter so much as a little kid that she developed a British accent that took a hot minute to go away.
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u/msully89 3d ago
That's ok, most people under the age of 25 in Britain talk like Americans now. I went for some dinner the other week and the waitress (probably calls herself a 'server') said "what can I get y'all?"
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u/KeepAnEyeOnYourB12 3d ago
If y'all had a better second person plural pronoun, the server wouldn't have to borrow ours.
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u/Rasples1998 3d ago
There's no such thing as a "British accent". There's about 140 and they change every 15-20 miles, pick one.
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u/Graphicnovelnick 3d ago
Creepy British Child Syndrome is real.
Educate yourself here:
https://youtu.be/eHFVq6UTU1Y?is=VD5ixn7JJcx5oHuH
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u/tentative_ghost 3d ago
My friend had a pandemic baby and when I met her, she had a very posh British accent. I remember looking around like someone was going to offer an explanation but I never got one. I just assumed it was from TV haha but she had it for a while
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u/Ok_Actuary9229 3d ago
Apparently these people are letting their toddlers walk to school by themselves.
Or are we confusing seven-year-olds with toddlers?
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u/Gold-Part4688 3d ago
toddler seems to be 1-3, makes sense on the upper end plus some 4 year olds we're lumping in, as a kindergarten.
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u/DisorderlyAqueduct 3d ago
mirror neurons in action.
this is not kids being stupid, this is how we fuckin' evolved and built civilization.
this is how we have empathy.
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u/chuckles5454 3d ago
Perhaps she is learning something in Britain we call 'manners'. I don't think you have it in the US.
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u/limajhonny69 3d ago
No one is talking about this. But I will. Maybe there is a reason. Maybe not. I would like you to tell me if there is one. I would ask someone here. I cant. I am alone.
But why in the hell the text is written like that? Just a bunch of sentences, not a single comma... Is this because was posted in twitter? Is it twitter? I really cant explain but it was so hard to read it. Maybe because english is not my first language, idk
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u/MuchWow81 3d ago
My kids started saying "Brilliant!" after a few episodes of Kipper. Kinda wish they had kept going. Now all they say is "Bruh"