To have asked him to talk properly around DS?

What’s wrong with you?! This is brilliant!!

because mine have been exposed to English as a foreigner (they have never lived in UK) they have learned a lot of their speech from podcasts, TV and so on. So they write "mom" and so on. I don't bother "correcting" it either, it is just... English.

I don’t mind “kid”. I think it’s fallen into common usage.

I’m in a couple of minds about the OP’s posts. On the one hand, I think strong regional accents are part of our collective history and are worth preserving. On the other hand, I am someone who says “For heaven’s sake, it’s “water”, not “wa’er”, “bottle”, not “bo’le”” to my children. When my daughter comes home from an activity and uses a mangled south coast / Estuary / London phrase, I tell her that we don’t speak that way. So I can see why the OP feels the way she does.

I’ll leave that to you, I’m a little busy.

Oh yes, unreasonable op! I used to work up in Northumberland, and I worked with a young, and very cool bloke, who used to say 'now then', instead of hello. I thought it was fab. I wish I could pull it off, but I sound way too RP for that. Family come from Yorkshire though. Fabulous accent.

If “kid” is wrong we’d better tell John Lewis and M&S. Both have a “Kids” section.

Hahaha 🤣

I think it's fine, it's not like he's reading the news or speaking a totally different regional accent to all the other locals.

We don't live oop north but after viewing Wallace and Gromit over Christmas one year, DS was tired one day at nursery. They said to him, 'Are you feeling tired?' He replied 'I'm cream crackered'. 🤣

This ^

I immigrated to Scotland before having children so my children are 1st generation Scottish. They've picked up all sorts of phrases from their friends and I think it's lovely - this is where they are from and they should be proud of it.

I'm northern and my mum was a language snob, constantly correcting my speech to the point where kids as school thought I was "posh" and didn't properly fit in. My DH is American and although our DCs mainly speak with a UK accent, they'll occasionally use his pronunciation. I don't ever correct it because that would undermine their dad. Just let your DS play with language if that's what he's interested in. Why do you need to control how he speaks?

I have family in Yorkshire and lots around them still say those phrases

stop being a snob

The way the OP writes it is different to how she writes the 'baffroom' example, which suggests that he is using the Yorkshire 't' in the 'baffroom' one but not in the shop one.

is "let's go shop" more "let's go t'shop" with the "the" completely replaced with a barely perceptible glottal stop though?

am late to the thread. We have bilingual children because we live in a different country. What this has taught me is that children code switch both within their own languages, and between the languages. It is utterly fascinating.

My OH comes from one of the far north-Yorkshire wastelands with a broad accent (he says it's gone, and it has lessened, but when he comes back from family visits it is very very noticeable). I'm from Yorkshire too (the town has a very distinctive language and has been mentioned a few times. FWIW: I like the bins 🙃). I have what used to be referred to as BBC English, but is now more likely to be called SSE (Standard Southern English) on account of being an army brat.

our DC speak with my accent. I was a SAHM for the first 3 / 1.5 years of their lives. Then DH was. So the opportunity to influence their accents is broadly similar. They can speak with his accent, but only do so to tease him. So "what would you like for breakfast?" often resulted in

"Toaaaaaaaast" with a North Yorkshire accent, followed by giggles.

All in all - with the exception of bog for toilet which i have never loved, but nobody in my family ever uses - i am very much in favour of preserving accents and dialect words. I wish i had my home city accent.

ETA: my point is, if each parent speaks in the way they usually do, the children will learn both. and hear other accents at school. It is fine

#TeamBreadcake (what a give-away!)

Give over…. It’s Saff London!

'Even hi would be better'

Do you really have an issue with saying 'hi' as well? That just seems a bit crazy

Many years ago, a woman I got talking to at a party told me that she would never go out with someone whose behaviour she would correct if he were her child. So no feet on the coffee table, no performative belching or farting. She refused a bloke who pronounced 'new' as 'noo.' I found this all rather fascinating. She would never have gone out with your husband, and neither should you have done; but since you did, you'll just have to put up with it, Oh, yes - and now he knows for sure you don't like the way he speaks, he's probably doing it all the more. Men, eh?

There is. Brummie.

Give over. There is no ‘purest form’ of English.

My mother, from Yorkshire, told me that Yorkshire English is the purest form of the language. She is also a snob and has zero trace of the accent, so… personally, I love a regional accent.

Urghhhhh does she say hospickle instead of hospital?! That's just beyond any kind of regional dialect IMO 😂

I love a well-spoken person with a confident regional accent… such people exist!

As your child grows older, with the right modelling from BOTH parents, they will be able to code switch.

Me too!!!