Anyone else's child speak with the 'wrong' accent but then grow out of it??

[Foogirl]

Oh the dropping of the Ts, Oh I hate that one too. My poor wee girl though, she spoke early and spoke well, and I found myself correcting the grammar of a 2 year old! I had to have words with myself "she's only two for goodness sakes!" My pet hate is "I done it." Very typical of the accent she has, there was a lass sat next to me who used it all the time and I just thought it made her sound really stupid (apologies to anyone who uses the phrase - it's my hang up!!)

 

[Mum2b_Claire]

I know what you mean! But also, rubys mistakes seem cute sometimes, e.g 'i do'd it' i think maybe because that is clearly a babyish thing to say rather than just a lazy / stupid thing to say!

 

[Foogirl]

As I was saying the other day, I love their imaginative use of grammar (the opposite of gently being hardly), but that's different to lazy grammar which becomes a habit in adults too.

Abby "do'd" things too - very cute.

 

[davidjoemum]

I'm very curious to see how Alex will speak, when he speaks more than "Hiya" and "Bye!," since I have an American accent and DH is pure Scottish

Me too!!!oh is English (cockney accent)and I have very strong Eastern European accent(I'm from Poland)!!!

 

[katy1310]

My daughter has a very strong regional accent. My husband and I don't. I know it comes from nursery as all the staff have this accent. And the slang words.....oh I hate the slang words. She talks about "mah" instead of "my" etc, oh and once told me "I'm pure soakin so ah am" I correct the slang and pronunciation, and she is slowly learning. It bothers me because she spends more time with us than at nursery, but theirs is a stronger accent. Neither my husband or I have strong accents. She did go through having an english accent and even copies some american accents. None of it lasted long.

I'm sure she'll grow out of it, I had an English accent at her age, despite my parents having strong scottish accents. Then I moved to scotland and found that children hit you if you speak funny. My accent changes depending on where I'm travelling to. As I go south I get more english and as I go north I get more of the Scottish Accent I grew up with. I never notice it, but my husband does!

I think suggesting speech therapy is a bit drastic. My SIL is a pediatric speech therapist. Her take on it was, children will pick up on their strongest influence. Making too big a thing about it may well stop them from exploring language and thats not something you want.

I remember the "pure soakin" incident - that really made me laugh!!!

Sophie seems to have a faintly Scottish accent just now, which is what I'd expect. DH and I and all Sophie's grandparents have Scottish accents and she's mostly around me. Mine isn't as strong as DH's. We live in North Northumberland, right on the border, and it's a really funny accent here - like a mix of Geordie and Scottish, so we'll have to wait and see what happens when she goes to school! x

 

[sapphire1]

I have a London accent, DH has a broad Yorkshire accent, and we live in Scotland Holly just has a high pitched lispy squeak of a voice with no real accent, although she does say hello like Mrs Doubtfire

I always get told that my accent has a tinge of Yorkshire to it now, that's from living with a Yorkshireman. I get the piss ripped out of me when I visit darn sarf. I have started saying Scottish words like 'wee' a lot too I have noticed that my accent changes depending on who I'm with, I definitely sound more cockney when I'm with my family.

 

[sarahchops86]

As a young child growing up in northern ireland, with a mother from the deep south in america, and a father from oxford in england, my accent has always been a bit strange! Even now at 26 I pronounce some words differently!

 

[pinklightbulb]

Eamon speaks a lot of words with a clear British intonation. To my Australian ears he says "lewk" for "look", and same with the words "book" and "cook". He sort of "drops" his double-o sound into a British accent. There is no real dip or drop in the words in an Australian accent so many other Aussie mums will know what I mean about the difference lol.

I don't know what part of Britian speaks that particular way but cBeebies is on an awful lot He says it like the woman off I Can Cook, if that helps

 

[shelx]

OHs nephew speaks with an american accent and clearly got it off TV as he says alot of amercian terms aswell. My own LO sounds a bit english when he speaks but mainly because hes sounds out his words and wants them to come out properly so sometimes will sound a bit posh

 

[babydevil1989]

my DS' accent is the same as ours - sussex (not that i think we have an accent really lol)

but he started to do this really babyish voice in an american accent when hes mucking about! - im sure the accent is from curious george! x

 

[XJessicaX]

hah! Yes!! T has started saying certain words with a northern twang! I can only assume they are words shes picked up from nursery! Really makes me laugh! Most of what she says is pronounced in the queens English as both OH and I are (embarrassingly) well spoken. Just a few phrases and individual words are learnt in a completely different accent!

 

[tashyluv]

Well we live in scotland in half scottish/ english, I spent my childhood in england then came to scotland when I was 10 so I have a scottish accent but not "broad" and my partner is scottish.

Ebveryone comments on my daughters accent, I honestly cannot descibe it, at one point I thought it sounded south african haha! But she says things such as "toap" instead of top (sounds like boat) or tomy (as in the toy) instead of tommy. Any word that sound like this she will pronouce funny. e.g cop=cope, chocolate= chokelate! lol

If I asked her where she lived, no doubt she would say scoatland! haha

 

[babyerin]

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[NickyT75]

My LO talks much posher than us too & people quite often comment on it but I think its cute x