When I was in 7th grade I asked a girl in my class if she was from England cause she had a British accent & she told me that she was not & that the reason she sounded like tht was because she had a speach impediment. It was awkward lol.
That's not true, my parents both had southern accents so when I was growing up they "masked" it. So when I grew up I didn't have one, even though pretty much everyone else I knew had a southern accent.
Huh? Did you grow up in a southern area? Children develop accents based on most of the language they hear around them, not just from the parents. That's one reason why a child of parents with speech impediments can talk normally.
I grew up in Arkansas, and when I was growing up it turns out my parents had my relatives mask their accents as well, so I grew up without a southern accent, and I was home-schooled up until fourth grade, so by then I didn't have a southern accent.
Okay, so it's possible that severely limiting social contact and having everyone around the child fake an accent could produce another accent, but come on. Occam's razor, folks. It's way more likely that the kid from camp in the story faked a British accent while at camp and then lied about it.
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