What accent will my child have?

He will have no choice but to speak Scottish as the kids bully English kids even the teachers. We did 5 years before we came back to England! Country is too racist.

My DH is in his sixties. He was born in London to Irish parents. He had an Irish accent until he went to school and then developed a South London accent which he still has - unless he is speaking to certain Irish relations when he reverts to his original accent(Donegal because that how his Mum spoke).
Weirdly, he also sings in that accent but his responses in Mass are in his Dad's Carlow accent!

Scottish. I'm English, DH has a soft Scottish accent but we live just outside of Glasgow and my daughter has a Glaswegian accent. I thought that with my accent and lots of peppa pig, she'd have a hybrid or mild Scottish accent but no, very strong. DS doesn't have a distinctive regional accent yet.

Most likely the local accent where they are raised. We’ve lived in Sweden for 17 months, so not long, but our youngest was almost two when we moved, so not a huge amount of speech. She has a distinct local accent when speaking both Swedish and English, where as our son was eight, so his accent hasn’t changed as much.

Children with autism often develop an American accent rather than from their locality or parents particularly if they use echolalia as they get it from the American TV shows and are emulated the accent as well as the words and phrases.

Otherwise, the accent of their location with some parents accent thrown in on certain phrases.

My wife has an aunt and uncle who lives in Aberdeen. Aunt is English, from Bucks and very posh, her uncle is originally from Edinburgh and broad scots. All 3 of their kids (2 also with autism) also all have southern English accents despite living in Scotland their whole lives.

I have moved around between Yorkshire and Norfolk. My parents are from London and Stoke on Trent originally. I was born in Sheffield, moved to Norwich when I was 5, went to university in Leeds, back to a Norfolk again for a year after. And then back up to West Yorkshire where I've lived now since 2012. Most people, including my wife say my accent is mainly southern sounding, with a slight Norfolk twang and the odd Yorkshire word after 15 years up north! Apparently I had a northern accent after the first move, but lost it when I started school within weeks. I am quite good at accents but despite half my family being broad stokies, I cant do that accent for the life of me!

I know of a family where the Mum is English, Dad is Scottish and both son and daughter speak with strong English accents.

They lived in Scotland from being born.

My husband and I immigrated from the states to Scotland before having kids. My daughter sounded like us to start but that all changed when she started school. Now at 12 she has two accents depending on who she is with. My son is 100% Scottish accent.

We live in Edinburgh though so lots of different accents around them all the time. I'd imagine if you lived up north it would be different.

i always wonder this.

Ds was born in a European country which doesn’t speak English. So he learnt local language from Kindergarten
But he speaks English at home. And dh and I have Southern English accents.
Will he just speak English with an English accent as he doesn’t hear English in a different accent? Or will he still have an accent as he speaks two languages and the second one will influence English?

We are both Irish and live in London -
4 year old speaks with a London accent with a bit of an Irish twang and says a lot of Irish phrases / words

Somewhere in between I think. They will be influenced by both.

Scottish, although it might be a tiny bit different to those around her. Some people will pick it up and ask her if her parents are from elsewhere, and others won't. She will probably sound more like you when she's around you.

I had my parents' Irish accent as a small child. I was born in another country and once I went to school at 5 my Irish accent faded away. I don't have a hybrid accent. I have the local accent where I was raised.

Dh and I are from the home counties and we have lived in the West country for 20 years. Ds1 and Ds2 have home counties accents, ds3 and ds5 speak broad Somerset and ds4 has a lisp so you can't really tell. Ds3 wants to be an actor and regularly tried out different accents. He is very good at the Scottish one which he swears is purely because I went to Scotland for the weekend when I was 6 weeks pregnant with him!

A family in my road growing up had Scottish parents. The kids spoke with English accents as they went to school in England.

Even us adults tend to pick up a slight dialect if we live in a place for a while. I'd imagine he will have a Glaswegian dialect, but possibly slightly softer to begin with due to hearing you speak.

Just wait until he goes full Rab C Nesbitt. 'Haw Mary Doll, you comin' oot for a swally?' 😅

DS1 is 4, moved to Scotland at 2 from the SE, DS2 is 2 and always lived in Scotland. Currently both have English accents, DS1 hasn’t even got a hint of a Scottish accent despite being in nursery 4 days a week and DH being Scottish. My friend moved at the same time with similarly aged kids and they both now have very strong Scottish accents - so there isn’t much rhyme or reason to it I don’t think!

Probably Scots.

I know a couple from Belfast who live in South London. They both have strong Belfast accents. Their 3 kids speak good Sarf London.

I read somewhere that whatever accent a child has at age 9 will stay with them.
My niece - English father snd Scottish mother moved up to Scotland when she was 10 and retained her very posh accent

Most likely Scottish. My dc we're born in south east to two Irish parents. Dc had English accents. Moved back to Ireland when they were late primary. Within a year had full Irish accents. I think his strong an accent is both where you start and where you end up is a factor. I lived in England for 20 years and my accent stayed exactly the same.

I’m not from where I live, DH is. Our kids have a bit of a mix, until about 5 they spoke a lot more like me, once school hit it became more local but certain things they say are like me. They don’t have strong accents now but are clearly from where we live.

Mine (autistic adults) have what they like to call the autism accent, family all Scottish and English, born and raised in Scotland. Their accents are flat, no particular twang, they speak correctly, no slang, use quite a few “old fashioned” words, over the years the have been asked if the are American, Australian, South African, asked if they had lived abroad for extended periods and asked if one parent was from another country.
edited to add those that think they are Scottish assume posh area or boarding school.

For ours in the early days it depended on where they were picking words up from- "boys and gurrells" "sit doooon" and "legs in a basket" came out in broad weegie accents as they were learned at nursery but other things came out much more English where they'd learned the words home.

Now they're older it depends on who they're with- chatting with their friends and they can sound pretty broad with west of scotland accents. When my parents come up and stay they can suddenly start sounding much more like me when the accents around them are much more southern. At home it's probably somewhere in the middle.

Just to add to the fun, my DH is from the NE, so we also have a lot of inconsistency around bath/baaaaaath, grass/graaaaass etc as well as some Scottish pronunciations and Scots phrases/syntax chucked in for good measure 🤣

Most of my friend group at school had parents who moved to our town for work. Most of us had the local accent but with a bit of a twang of our parents accents that came out stronger when we were highly emotional.

I ended up moving back to my parents hometown at 18 and while the twang got a bit stronger I still mostly sound like my original town.

My DS2, who has ASD, started talking around 4. He seems to have his own unique voice, tbh. Not an accent, just a rather high sing-song DS2 voice as a child, which has deepened now he's an adult.

My DS1 has a really posh voice and DS3 much less so. He can't pronounce his 'th' sounds even as an adult.

My parents were Welsh and my siblings and I always lived in the West Country. My siblings both have strong West Country accents whereas mine is much less broad. No idea why, I went to a very normal comp but just never picked up the accent strongly. I don't sound Welsh either, just generic south western.