To have asked him to talk properly around DS?

My Dad had a strong Derbyshire accent, I can flick in and out of it myself with ease. Im a nurse and it actually makes me job a lot easier as I can understand what the older generation are saying and build good relationships quickly as I revert into Derbyshire dialect. Everyone laughs at my posh phone voice and as soon as it's someone I know, I flick into Derbyshire mode 'ay up me duck!'

Your son will be fine, he will just be calling you bro and fam anyway 😂

YABU.

Part of parenting involves correcting the way your children speak and anyway, they tend to end up speaking the same way as most of the community they're being raised in.

My parents had broad Southern Irish accents but none of the 5 kids they had, speak anything even resembling Irish because we grew up in England.

Although there would've been times where you could've detected it as we were growing up.

Leave your husband's accent alone and try not to pick your child up too much, or they may end up reluctant to speak at all.

I'm from the Black Country and everyone there would understand osses. We even have a mon on the oss in Wolverhampton.

Being in a middle-class profession meant I quickly learned to code switch, just as your son will. In fact, I now cannot speak with my original (extremely broad) accent, unless I am speaking with someone else from the Black Country.

It's really sad that regional accents/dialects are dying out due to physical and social mobility - your son is keeping the old words and dialect alive.

#TeamCob

Well quite! It's all a bit 'accents are fine so long as it's not obvious you're speaking with one'...

My mam had a similar obsession -- she didn't make my dad tone down his accent but she wouldn't let him use Geordie words around us. The outcome was that when I went to school everybody said I was "posh" because I didn't speak in dialect. Leave your husband alone!

#TeamBatch

Ouch. Your poor kids and partner

@CujoOn I agree with making kids speak properly!! I didnt actually know what you meant when you wrote bods!! In the kid's future, he will get a job much easier. my eldest was offered a job which involved going round with a video and mic and asking the guests questions. the owner chose her because she was the only one he could understand. she didnt want the job because it interfered with her time off work but she could have been worked there if she had wanted to!

You are being a snob
Hth

Oh God this, in SPADES!!

I'm so sick of being called bruv or fam 🙄

100% agree.

I hear English people say quite often that we have lost too many of our traditions. Language is a huge part of that.

We live in quite a 'naice' rural village and the kids all speak quite plummy, as does DS, but I did really enjoy it when he picked up 'Aye up' and 'G'ut 'eck!' from his Great Grandad when he was little. So cute!

We are Midlanders but my Grandad also said Osses, watter (water, but so it rhymes with batter) and tatties for potatoes.

Colloquial language isn't something to be ashamed of, OP. The kids at school won't blink and eye and soon all you'll be hearing is skibidee Ohio rizz, which is a million times worse 😂

Your child will grow up with a blend of your accent and your DH’s.

That’s if your DH doesn’t get tired of you complaining about him being common and bin you off for someone who actually likes him.

Apart from "do ya want bog" every single one of your examples is just him using a different dialect and accent to you.

He's not "wrong" - just different.

Maybe you shouldn't have married him if it was such an issue

It's aye up..
I'm a Yorkshire lass.
Not Broad like Barnsley ( think Jane Mcdonald.. l lived on her road.. but she's sold up now.. I'm still here).
I don't think there is anything wrong in it.
Have a walk around Barnsley market.. or watch casualty 24/7.. even the Doctors and nurses have the strong accent..and use common sayings and words

Yes, you’re being a snob. Except for “do you want bog” - that’s vile.

But the rest is just dialect and in many ways has quite a lot of charm, given the homogenisation of language that comes from an increasingly shrinking world.

I love this campaign. It celebrates the identity of Sheffield just as local communities and identities should be celebrated.

Gee over lass.

Be thankful he’s not strutting around with some awful faux Jamaican gangster talk going on.

Having a regional accent is fine.

Agree that it matters whether you are living in Yorkshire? When your DS goes to school he will develop the accept of his peers anyway. We live in a Yorkshire city, neither DH or I are from Yorkshire and DS has the strongest Bradford accent. I never correct the accent/ dialect, but I will correct lazy language "summot" instead on "something", and "nowt" instead of "nothing".

Is this your husband…..

Arrntie...in the South....

"Bog" for loo is considered coarse even in Yorkshire? My mum would never have stood for that, although she uses lots of Yorkshire words, and my Grandad who was a proper old Yorkshire builder would never have said with the family.

Sorry how would you pronounce it not like auntie aircraft gun…

Just out of curiosity, how do you pronounce Bucket OP?

Don't you mean patricide?