Do you correct your DC's accent?

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We live in East London, and DS (4) goes to nursery for 10 hours a day, 3 days a week. He hasn't picked up a massive accent, but he is dropping his Ts pretty consistently (or pre'ey consis'en'ly as he would say).

He has just asked to watch the Go Je''ers, and shown me wha' a lo' of grapes he's go'. Am I wrong to keep correcting him? No' tha' it's working anyway .

I came from Dublin, so it's not that I speak like the queen anyway, but...what is wrong with the letter T?!

Actually my DS says "aw, maaaan!" And "check this out!", but he learnt those from a Romanian friend. For some reason I don't mind those.

But if he ever starts speaking Jafaican, we are leaving. That is final.

Mine keep using american words or if its a word they havent heard befote theb they say it with an american accent. Drives me crazy. Maybe because my mum was very particular about it too as we watched nikelodeon as kids. I have found my self saying its a nappy not a diaper. Its rubbish bin not trash can. Its a lift not an elevator etc...

Also we are from the southeast. My aunt is from birmingham. Lovely lady. Cant fault her. But my uncle now talks with a brummie accent. Not a problem but i dont understand what hes saying sometimes. I can understand my aunt though....

I knew DS1 was picking up the accent local to where I was at university and he was at nursery when he started asking for "turst" and pointing enthusiastically at the toaster. If you're from or have ever been there you will know where I'm talking about.

I was born in Bristol. My mother grew up in Lancashire and my Dad in Wrexham. Ty had the corresponding accents, mixed with some cockney as they'd lived in South London for some time. My sisters all ended up sounding quite Bristolian but I think I may have been quite confused as to what to copy and ended up sounding like the BBC. I was made fun of quite a lot for that.

*they. Not Ty

Yes, because I don't want him to sound like a yamyam when we are not local to here and will one day be moving on again.
I have no accent due to moving around a lot as a child. My DH has a northern accent.

I love accents and grew up in a multi-accent household. Where we live now though accents are pretty neutral but occasionally they will drop a t. Rather than pounce on it, I go the other way and say it back to them (can't help myself). I prefer to correct grammar than accent to be honest, but I have to admit I didn't like it when an old teacher said 'somefink'.

By they, I mean my kids! Not grown ups

The accent the DC pick up isn't the local accent which DH and his family have (Suffolk), it's a lazy version of a generic south east accent with dropped Ts and HS.

Poor DC, I correct them to the generic south east accent with Ts and Hs and DH corrects them to broad Suffolk. Fortunately they are bilingual .

We live in Yorkshire but I am from all over Europe (so am internationally schooled, with a mostly RP accent). I correct my DD’s pronunciations because I think, rightly or wrongly, that the local accent makes people sound less educated.

What's a yam Yam?

A Yam Yam is someone from the Black Country.

It's not a derogatory term we used it for ourselves (and to separate us from Brummies) but the previous poster clearly thinks it's a terrible thing.

I think it's very naive to think that accents have no bearing on how people react to you. I'm lucky in that I work for a Black Country company where our directors are also Black Country but if I went out of the area and was interviewed against someone speaking RP even if I was the slightly stronger candidate they would pick them over me.

I have also recently been to a posh lunch and had some 'hilarious' man pick up on my accent and start loudly declaring 'weve got wun frum DUDLAY here' even though my accent isn't that strong. I've had many incidents like this where I've just sat in silence all night.

It's not a derogatory term we used it for ourselves (and to separate us from Brummies) but the previous poster clearly thinks it's a terrible thing.

I Don't think being a yam yam is a terrible thing, the people are lovely. The accent, however, is not. Neither is the Brummie accent tbf.

I don't correct them but I try to model how I'd like them to speak both in terms of words used and pronunciation. I love the way our regional accent shows up when they're learning phonics. "Nooncurn" for unicorn is a particular highlight!

I correct some.I did go on and on about 'F' for 'th' for years .When DS had speech therapy the therapist said it was quite a late developing sound,and she would only correct it if the family's norm was "th".I decided ours was,so kept on!
My bugbear is words/ grammar.
DS says "gotten" .He says "okwa" too,it took me a long time to work out he means "Aqua" which I would pronounce "ackwa". I was going to say because I'm English not American but maybe it's regional here too - he has got it from the Internet though.
So for me it's not regional,it's American pronunciations caught from media.Years of "what did you say ,DD? What? Oh,ok but we say it like this because we are British not American ... "

I come from Wales (lives in England 25 years). My dh comes from the midlands. Neither of us have much of an accent at all.

Our dcs have been born and bred in the South West. Now they're teens they definitely have an accent. Sometimes it's stronger than others but they definitely have a Somerset twang. I actually like it. Why shouldn't they? They were born here and live here.

I grew up in Dorset, and it tends to come out more when I am talking to my sister, or talking about Dorset.

My mother had a thing that dialect was okay, but slang wasn't - which was fine, except I mostly knew that words were non-standard, in that they didn't appear in school text books or Radio 4, but I didn't really know whether they were dialect till I moved away to uni, and every now and then would find people staring at me blankly when I used a word they'd not heard.

I did ask for water in a cafe in Boston (Mass. not Lincs) and they failed to understand what I wante, despite me trying to be less Dorset and more RP - eventually, the waiter said, "oh, you mean wadder." I still don't believe he'd never heard a British accent before.

I'm from Yorkshire where many drop their Ts, mum consistently corrected me and it did the job.

Surrey, but some of it is souff London, sounds like a barrow boy. Or so I tease Dh. And yes I correct ds's.

I'm from a T and H-dropping area. I don't recall being corrected, but I certainly don't have the accent from my home town, so I'm assuming I was!