To ask what accent your kids have?

I’m a manc too OP but moved to Oldham with DH where he is from. My kids sound like Sarah Lancashire 🤣 no bad thing! But definitely broad Oldham accents like DH and his family.

From my limited experience kids pick up the accents of their peers.

My parents were both from Norfolk and we moved to Yorkshire when I was 4. I have a Yorkshire accent with a Norfolk twang on some words.

My friend is from Yorkshire, her partner is Irish and they live in America, their children sound American.

An old school friend has Scottish parents but lived in Yorkshire from young, she could switch effortlessly between Scottish and Yorkshire accents depending on who she was speaking to. Was fascinating to hear if they ever phoned her and she’d just switch.

Southern accent here. Her Dad has a Portuguese accent. I suppose her accent is similar to mine but a bit posher which is weird because she is surrounded by Londoners who aren’t posh.

Mine is Liverpool based and I'm desperate for her not to have a full on Scouse accent. It'll be my inner Hyacinth Bucket coming out but I think a strong Scouse accent could hold her back; there was a recent survey saying that people hearing the Scouse or Geordie accent instinctively thought of criminals.

In reality what will be will be, I ensure he annunciates her words correctly etc. She's nearly 10 and has a general Northern accent in terms of pronunciation etc without a strong accent as such. She does a 'great' thick Scouse accent when she's winding me up though, so it is in her!

You don’t have a ‘neutral accent’ though @CruCru and @KnickerFolder. You have accents which you believe are more socially acceptable than other people’s accents.

A neutral RP accent like me.

IME children pick up the accent of their peers at school with maybe an occasional quiek from a parent. DH and DBIL both have RP accents, as did MIL, but FIL had a Yorkshire accent, They grew up somewhere where most people had RP accents but the local rural accent pronounced bath in a similar way to Yorkshire. DBIL says bath with an a like FIL, DH says bah- th, like MIL.

Before mine started nursery they had my north east accent. And then the accent of their first nursery. We then moved and they picked up the new nursery accent (verrrry different to the first) Spain vs Scottish! And they picked up the latter within 3 weeks.

He has a Barnsley accent. Thank god!

The reason I describe myself as having a "neutral Southern accent" is because I didn't pick up the Brighton / South Coast accent (when strong it is very vowel-y with few consonants). I would not say that I have a RP accent because I think that is a specific accent (perhaps described as "properly posh" - the Princess of Wales speaks with a RP accent).

💯 the local accent from school. I've Nannied for 20 years with parents from all over the world. The children may start off with their parent's accent from being mostly at home. But once at nursery and school they have the local accent.

Usually you'll find they get the local accent but it doesn't always happen, my DH moved from Essex to Durham when he was 4, he has a weird mix of northern/southern, his sister who was 1 at the time has a proper Durham accent

Depends where in Liverpool as we don't all have the Scouse accent. I'm from somewhere closer to Southport and have a generic northern accent like my mum. People have no idea that I'm Scouse.

My dad is one of three raised closer to central Liverpool. He has a partial Scouse accent, his sister sounds Lancastrian and his brother (who lives in Devon!) is extremely Scouse 😂

Seems it's a bit of a lottery!

There is no such thing as a neutral accent. People who are saying this just believe theirs is the default way of sounding. Speaks volumes about the class system in this country.

I'm Irish and live in Ireland. I have a soft South Dublin accent and my husband has a soft Clare accent. I think my daughters will end up sounding like me.

I live (born and mainly bred) in a place that borders three counties. Most people pick up that it's a northern accent, but cannot place it.

My adult child was born in Liverpool and went back there (after living most of their lives in the place I live) to university, and start there for 15 or so years. Their partner is from liverpool, but we all now live in the place I was born.

Adults child is neutral northern, with a smattering of scouse. But we can all pronounce "chicken" the Scouse way. If you know, you know.

I have a mild welsh accent and husband is pretty neutral
we live in south Manchester and the children sound rather too manc-y for my liking !!!

My grandchildren are raised in the east midlands (think going dahn tahn, bath laff, grass all with a shirt a) but inexplicably talk with a southern accent! (Barth, larf, grarss).

We're from SE Kent and have a local accent, maybe a bit smoothed over :) but Dd has lived in Belgium since she was 2 and her peers are all French speaking. When she speaks English she speaks like us.

Cedilla,
Which is a bit disappointing as he is called Carson, and so he sounds a bit vinegary when he introduces himself.

I'm American with an Irish Husband (who honestly pretty much just sounds American and has sine before he moved here.) We live in Chicago, where I am from, and our son has a Chicago accent.

Kids speak my home accent with me, local accent at school and different language (and accent) with their dad - was a shock to hear them in school - didn't sound like my kids 🤣🤣

I'm always surprised when people object to their children acquiring a local accent. It's a perfectly ordinary thing to happen. For instance, I know a family in London. The mother is American, the father is Scottish, and the children have London accents. Perfectly normal IMO. The children have never lived anywhere else. Why wouldn't they speak like their peers?

We are a bilingual family so that may influence my views. But I do think that the objection to children speaking in local dialects is often due to snobbery.

My children have the same accent as at me despite living in a county with a different accent and to most classmates. However their grandparents, aunties, uncles and cousins all have the same accent as I do so that may be why

I grew up in London (fairly RP) but my vowels shorten as I cross the Runcorn bridge as my family is in Liverpool.

One of my kids is RP but the other 2 are more MLE (multicultural London English) which i once heard described as one third Cyprus, one third Jamaica and one third Walthamstow.

Very well-spoken Scottish. Think Kirsty Young or similar.