Teacher dialect

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No doubt I'll make a mistake on this, Sod's Law and all that...

All the SLT and from what I've heard a lot of the teachers speak is sard east London dialect.

Free / three / roof / ruth / we was etc.

It's grating on me, if Roof was on the roof and needed free pounds to get off but her mum was coming to get her where was she going?

I understand dialect / colloquialisms but some of what they say/write doesn't make sense.

Anyone else as irritated as me? It's the same
on the radio now, the guy on capital is giving away free fousand pounds for free. Argh.

Regional accents are class related aren't they? It's the whole premise of Pygmalion/ My Fair Lady.

I thought we were more enlightened and realised that language spoken with regional accents is just as valid as language spoken with RP these days especially now the class system is not so well defined and all-powerful as it was in the olden days? Evidently not.

Not really - I can assure you, even the wealthiest Glaswegians still have a Glaswegian accent. Just a posher version.

What does posh mean in that context? Nearer to RP?

I'm not necessarily arguing, just interested. I think regional accents are to be celebrated.

It's appalling. You can't be a teacher and not pronounce things correctly.

I don’t think that “posh” Glaswegian comes anywhere close to RP 😂

To use comedians as an example, “posh glaswegian” would probably be Frankie Boyle, whereas Kevin Bridges would be more akin to how working class Glaswegians speak.

But correctly is subjective when accents come in to play @Brieandcamembert. For me 'baaaarth' is correct, for my cousins in Staffordshire 'bath' is. Who is the most correct? I would argue we all are. And a South (Sarf) London 'free' for three is a regional accent variation, just as scaaaarf/scarf is.

So none of you correct your children when they say things like 'baff', fink, etc. You just accept it and think that they are developing a working class cockney accent, even if they live elsewhere?

Posh Glasgwegian and RP are not remotely similar.

When my DH was teacher training the teacher constantly said somethink. He was then marking books and many children had written it this way in their books.

My DH says 'skellington'- drives me mad!

The original question in this thread wasn't about London accents in places other than London though @FancyFanny. It was about people having South East London accents in South East London. Sometimes it is a shame if kids are picking up American or London or Australian accents from TV, rather than their own local ones when we have such a wonderfully rich blend of different accents in the UK. But other than snobbery I'm not sure why anyone should be bothered by their kid having a 'working class cockney accent', especially if they are living in a working class part of London.

It's painful to hear Irish media types trying not to pronounce R though. I'm hopelessly prejudiced in favour of poor old R.

Yes! People who would have grown up talking about Oar Tee Ee suddenly pronouncing it Arr Tee Ee on air.