Have you ever woken up feeling like a completely different person? Maybe you craved pineapple on pizza for the first time or suddenly understood the appeal of Crocs. Well, my friends, my transformation was a tad more… auditory.
The Great Accent Shift of 2023: My Inner Voice Goes British
It all started on a Tuesday. A perfectly ordinary Tuesday, I might add. I was making breakfast, contemplating the existential dread of burnt toast, when a voice inside my head piped up, “Honestly, darling, you couldn’t toast bread if your life depended on it.”
Now, I’m not usually one to argue with myself (at least not out loud), but something was different. This wasn’t my usual internal monologue, the one that sounds suspiciously like my mother when I’m about to do something reckless. No, this voice was… British. And not just any British, but the kind of posh, clipped accent you’d expect from a character in a Jane Austen novel.
