To ask what accent your kids have?

I'm from Lancashire, DH from Yorkshire, but his accent isn't a strong one. DS1 has a light Yorkshire accent like his Dad, but for some reason DS2's Yorkshire accent is considerably stronger.

Another very strange assumption.

Where has anyone said southern accent = posh or that you all live on mansions

Weird

I’m southern and can be very polite, but I’m also partial to a sweary rant every now and again. I probably sound like Hugh Grant being a knob in Four Weddings but it’s very cathartic.

Northerners are more likely to live in massive houses due to the differences in costs 🤷🏻‍♀️

Idk someones trying to imply I'm such a fancy pants southern and that's the reason I think my accents the default because everyone in the southern area is high class or something.

Fuck it maybe I am a proud cocky southern though

I think they'll have a mix. I'm from the south and have a posh accent (despite not being posh!). My DH is foreign but has no hint of a foreign accent. He also sounds quite posh. Our children were born in Yorkshire. They generally have a southern accent. They've been called posh at school. However, they definitely say words like bath, grass, fast, the Yorkshire way, with the short 'a' sound. There's also another accent that young people use. I don't know how to describe accept that it's a bit "street", maybe how rappers talk! I've heard this accent everywhere in England. I've definitely detected this when my kids speak too.

Isn’t that just what us southerners like to think to make us feel superior? Think hyacinths bucket 😂

They will have a Liverpool accent once they start school.

We’re from Kent but live in the West Country. Very few dc have West Country accents and most people we know moved here from the south east - it’s a town that people move to for jobs I think. Dc speak English with a general southern accent. Dd1 and 2 are posher than dd3 who drops her ts etc but I think that’s based on friendship groups.

I’m also not jealous of people living in Southern England @Bankin.
What a bizarre assumption.

I don’t think all southerners are posh. Why would I think that?

Everyone has an accent, whether they think they do or not. Sometimes somebody has an accent that is so mixed in terms of its influences (whether from parents or moving around) that it is difficult to place.

I think both the UK and Ireland have a very wide range of accents over a fairly small geographical area so they are a bit different to America in that sense.

The insecurities and jealousy towards Southern English always come out to play and the assumption we all live in mansions and speak like the queen. Lol think it and Seeth about it if you want

Well Im Just saying I know a lot of Americans who say they don't have accents when clearly to us in the UK and Ireland they do.

Not sure if the last part of your comment is supposed to imply all southerns are posh or something but whatever at this point people believe what they want to believe 🤷🏻‍♀️

Everyone doesn't think that at all

Everyone has an accent. Why would they think they don't

I'm from north east , DH from Cumbria. Kids had my accent as we lived there till there were little. Been at international school for 10!years now and have a weird non descript accent. My son pronounces his words with an American twang as his nursery teacher was from Florida. I love listening to them talking to their (local) friends as they code switch and change how they speak English , and switch back when speaking to us or other British friends. Fascinating.

I mean I’d place it as being (most probably) English 😁

I certainly don’t think everybody in the south of England sounds like the queen did btw…and I don’t even live in the UK. I’m Irish, but we get a lot of British TV.

I do think you’re wrong in your belief that most people don’t think they’ve an accent, but maybe that belief is area dependent or social class dependent. I’ve a feeling it might be 😉

Im Scottish and dad is London - living in SE. Kids (10 and 13) can do an amazing Scottish accent on demand but unfortunately it's a plain old Estuary accent for them now. When they were little though they would throw in the odd Weegie pronounced word to my own amusement!

I have a fairly "neutral" (generic southern I guess) accent. I used to have a Northumberland accent but had to tone it down because I live abroad and nobody understands northern. I still pronounce things like bath, grass the northern way though. Partner is German. My daughter is only 3 and mostly sounds like me. She's at a bilingual nursery and the English speaking staff member is South African. Recently she's started saying "yiss" instead of "yes" and singing the alphabet song with "zee" instead of "zed" (I correct that one!)

I grew up in wigan and have a strong accent DH is from the West Midlands and we live in rural Staffordshire and our children speak posh to us😂although my DD2 says a couple of things very northen! Especially the word "ney" which must be from family and not my self.

Well yeah like I said pretty sure most people think they don't have an accent I've even seen Americans claim they don't have accents. Everyone thinks they are the default.

And really if you have an opinion that every southern sounds like the queen then you probably wouldn't be able to place my accent 😉

I find it strange that you can be so attuned to local differences in accent, but still believe you or your children don’t have accents at all @Bankin. I don’t get it 🤔

By the time they go to school most children speak with the local accent. I’ve many friends from abroad, mainly South Africa or the US and the kids all have the accent of their peers.

I thought most drill artists live in the south east. I'm only aware of one posh one.

Apologies haven't read this full thread but I've seen it said on a lot of other threads that everyone in the south east has a posh accent.

There's a clear difference between a regular southern accent and a posh one. Real southerns know this.

At about age 4 we noticed the beginnings of the accent appearing and then by the time she turned 5 she was starting to sound decidedly Northern Irish when speaking English to the point that my family were commenting on her cute accent

She turns six in March and now she sounds almost like her peers

I'm broad as buggery Kiwi, DH is a private school combo of Kiwi and English, with no hint of the Manchester he originated from.

The girls are a hybrid of Kiwi and South East England, which is understandably getting stronger, the longer we live here. One of them also had a 'down South NZ) bur' that she got from her favourite day care worker.