To disown DD or move to Hampshire immediately?

[Lovecat]

She came home from first day in Y1 at (Greater London) school yesterday and said "Teacher arksed me"...

My inner pedant is appalled.

DH's reaction is to want us to move "back" to his neck of the woods so she grows up speaking proper, like. Is he over-reacting?

YANBU but you should go to Surrey not Hampshire.

Yes, SnailWhaleTale, DD is 5 as well and seems to be unaware of the existence of the letter 't' in her words... she's so estuarine it's unbelieveable, despite neither DH or I being from the area (Essex/East London borders).

MrsMellowD, DH did indeed go to Kempshott and had several years at Richard Aldworth (sp?) before his dad moved them up to London when he was 15. He lived on an estate with lots of Lake District street-names and was most upset that there's now a new housing development on what used to be 'his' orchard!

I love the Bristol/N.Somerset accent too.

Which is just as well, for various reasons.

Once worked briefly in a SE London school - I thought I spoke rather well but as soon as I opened my mouth the kids fell about laughing. Bastards.

I was puzzled to see a comedy Bristol t-shirt which dclared that the wearer had been "Smoovin the cat".

Apparently people elsewhere don't smoove their cats. Again, bastards.

What the hell is a Pompey accent, i was born and raised in Chichester (and still live there now) very near to Portsmouth and i am ever so well spoken!

Excuse me all MNers slating the Portsmouth accent. I'm from there and many people North of Hants tell me I'm posh and many say I have no accent

Know what you mean OP, friends DH is from London, Sutton way and so is his DD drom previous relationship. We do take the micky a bit with her FANKS etc, and she does it back over poshing her talk

My dd has got a really broad Gloucester accent (v similar to Bristol accent).

I am from Devon, and have made cosmopolitan types laugh at me when I have asked 'where's it to?. Evidently a west country thang.

WHY OH WHY is is Hants? Hampshire hasn't got a t in it. It should be Hamps.

How funny, Lovecat!

We were in that estate too... Coniston Road! Hatch Warren has now mostly covered up all the fields we used to play in.

We moved away when I was quite small, but bizarrely I live not that far away now in one of the just-outside B'stoke villages.

Did your husband have Mrs Hasthorpe as a teacher (infants). She was my FAVOURITE teacher ever, mainly because she taught me to do handstands!

I have a Hampshire accent. Just yesterday I was laughed at in a senior management meeting for the way I pronounced "Pasture"

("Paaaaaaascher")

So I'd suggest Surrey too

Loving this thread, btw, having mainly been at school in both Basingstoke and then Portsmouth... [wistful emoticon]

Ooh, I will ask him! He lived on Derwent - small world! :)

He would love to come back one day and live in one of the little villages surrounding - waxes very lyrical about them... sadly he works locally and can't stand commuting so it would be unworkable right now.

Hmm.. perhaps I should be enouraging DD with the arkseds, dropped Ts and local pronunciation of 'll' as 'W' (ie Gants Hiww) and it might make him rethink

Oh I can slate it, I am totally the odd one out, with my well spoken inlaws and neighbours, I have been told many a times when the drink flows I sound like a cockney farmer.

I lived near Pompey for 3 years, adn thought I'd indavertently stumbled into an episode of eastenders.V similar accents to south/east london I thought.
Then i went in and started speaking with a broad Scots accent just to confuse them all

My best friend when I was 5 lived on Derwent road! !

I always thought when I was younger, that it was my complete mission in life to escape Basingstoke... But it turns out I love it here. Village life around is lovely, and you can ignore the big sprawling metropolis of the 'Stoke, twinkling in the distance...

oi - big up the 'ampshire massif

he he i posted yesterday on not having an accent -i am inbetween farmers and cockernees

You can't guarantee a better accent from Surrey. My bro and sis tork like dis, awight darlin', I ain't kiddin', they often fretten to punch people's fuckin' 'eads in.

You couldn't tell we were bought up in the same house!

Oh getorf, my daughter's going to have Gloucester accent isn't she? That or American, she spends a lot of time saying 'I sure do like that mummy' or 'that sure is a green car'

'Where's it to?' is defo West country, I lived in Dorset for 2 or 3 years and found it very funny. They on the other hand thought I was Australian

i grew up in southampton (bout 8 miles away from where i am now) and there is such a difference.i agrre tho surrey is best hants v variable.

Mrs MD - how old are you, if it's not a rude question? Does your name begin with J?

(just wondering if you are DH's sister's long-lost BF - now that would be weird!)

No, I'm a C, not a J, and I'm 37.

I've lost touch with everybody from back then, sadly. Although I did very randomly discover that a chap I'd been working with very closely for years, had been at that school with me too, in the same class, and we'd never realised. We had friends in common, but had absolutely no recollection of each other whatsoever!

I live in Surrey and, on the whole, ds1 has a reasonable accent.

However, he does tend to bring these strange expressions into the house. For instance, he said to me the other day 'Ge'us a drink bruv'. After some mental translation I concluded that he wanted me to get him a drink. I thwacked him soundly about the head with the OED pointed out that not only were his grammar and pronunciation incorrect but his grasp of basic Biology was severely lacking as in fact I was neither his sibling nor male.

I think he got the point......

OOh I like the sound of cockney farmers. I might drive down to Portsmouth this weekend to have a ganders.

Where is it, btw? Is it somewhere near Brighton?

Sharbie

Actually I think you will find you pronounce it Sow - ampton

nah sufamptun

mate

Mush