DS is 3. He is at pre-school 3 days a week.
He's recently starting picking up some bad habits around his speech from one of the other boys.
He is bascially dropping the middle parts of words. So saying "li-ull" instead of "little" and "nor-ee" instead of "naughty" etc.
It's odd as it's not actually the local accent. I am Northern and we live in the North and DH is from Tonbridge so neither of us speak RP and I'm not expecting that or being snobby.
It just bothers me as it sounds really lazy. If he developed a strong local accent I would roll my eyes a bit as I don't like it, but I would accept it as that's where we live, but this is different. It's not a local accent, it's just plain awful.
DH thinks it's just a phase and I shouldn't keep picking him up on it. But it grates like mad. So much so I had a moment about changing pre-school (though I'm not going to and I know that was U).
It's a really recent thing and I think he is copying one particular boy as none of his other friends speak like this. Again, this isn't snobbery, his other friends have Northern accents as you would expect (as does he with the odd, random long vowel thrown in from copying DH )- this isn't about accents, it's about him dropping whole chunks of words.
AIBU to think he is going to grow up sounding like this or will he grow out of it?