to stop my children speaking with the local accent?

[workshy]

95% of the time I accept that my dcs speak with the local accent -I'm not a fan but they fit in with their peer group, I chose to live here so it's fine

but when they pronounce their own names differently to me it drives me insane

they both have an 'a' in the middle of thier names which when I was naming them I pronounced with a short 'A', like the name of the letter
locally it's pronounced 'aaaaaaaaaa' -children in their classes are telling them they are saying their names wrong!

AIBU to insist they say their names the way I intended or do I just go with the flow?

Insist away, but I bet you find they'll then say it one way at school and the other way at home.
My sister's friend married an american and her children speak to her in her accent, and their dad in his, and can literally switch mid-sentence, depending which parent they are looking at as they speak. It's ever so amusing to watch, and they don't seem to even realise they do it

you should tell the teacher that you want it pronounced how you pronounce it.

assuming it's something like alexandra?

Maybe YABU, but you named them, so perfectly understandable to want them to say it your way.
I have a problem with DD1 saying nur instead of no at the minute and sher instead of she. I can't stop myself correcting her. I may be unreasonable, but it is my ears that are being offended.

How old are they, though?

I'll tell you one so I don't out myself

Katie

simple name, pronounced K-T however the children pronounce it kaaay-te

teachers don't but the children do

YABU.

Pom that's weird

My son has a friend who speaks to his friends and his Dad in an English accent, and speaks to his Mum in a broad Irish accent.

It was amusing when she picked him up from school and he'd say to his friends, "Seeya later bruv"....then turn around and say "Hey Mammy, can oi get an oice cream at da van?"

and they are 8-10

YABU

My mum used to stop us saying wa and ba instead of wall and ball and it really got on my wick.

Honestly, they're not even pronouncing her name differently, they're just making a longer sound because of their accent. It's not like when people call my friend Graham (gray-ham) when his name is Graeme (grame).

in RL it sounds very different -not brilliant at phonics though

I used to speak cockney at school then MC at home! My kids will end up having yukky London accents too sadly

YABVU and a snob.

hahaha

not a snob -I have a manchester accent!!!

I have an auntie who used to irritate everyone by correcting us when we called her daughter "kay-ie" and say "kayTEE!"

Her daughter was obviously just as annoyed, because now she calls herself Kate :)

I keep feeling a bit uneasy at my two getting Geordie accents (I come from Lancashire, DH from Newcastle but he lived in Lancashire so long that he has the accent too) but then the ILs get uneasy because apparently the girls are actually getting Mackem accents, which is far worse. Apparently MIL used to coach DH and BIL to tone down their accents, but people still thought that DH had a hilariously broad geordie accent when he went away to uni, so I think we are doomed.

DH has never come to terms with the children have a southern accent.

.... the children having a southern accent.

haha, my kids are picking up the local accent, I think it is fun.

even DH has started calling me "my lovie" haha

I pick up accents really quickly - I was brought up in a house with a northern mum and a very well spoken 'proper' English accented father. My brother sounds extremely cockney all the time, while I tended to speak like my dad. When we visited my nan in Manchester I would very quickly dop in to their accent and now I live in North Wales, I've picked that up too!

DP does it too - he was born here but doesn't really have an accent when he is at work or talking to me - when he gets really angry or is talking to his mother, his Welshy side comes out

My toddler keeps saying 'waw-er' instead of 'water'. It's not a speech defect, he can actually say 'water'.

He sounds an extra from Eastenders.

HE's 2, he lives in N wales.

ps My mum used to go nuts at us speaking like the other kids, cos she was from the hills and didn't have the local welsh/scouse hybrid accent and pronunciation. We speak proper now though!

Yabu its a local accent if i was in a humphy mood i would tell you to bloody well move to where they do say the names properly but im not so you say it your way let the children say it theirs ,

I must add, I actually prefer the Geordie accent as it sound livlier than the Lancashire one, it is just a bit weird to hear your children talking differently to you.

I'm trying to raise them bilingual :)

My child speaks northern at school.

Its all t's and asses and yuh instead of you.

No, you say it your way and grant everyone else the same right. Potato, potato, you know

I always remember going to a pub round here with DH and my Dad. DH was talking to my Dad in Lancashire, then a drunk man at the bar starting talking in what sounded like Chorley German (ie Mackem), DH replied in broad Geordie, then turned round and translated into Lancashire, without even realising he was doing it.

I nearly fell off my chair laughing :)

I am, however, developing a Geordie "Excuse me" - I think because I say it when asking directions or something.