to hate the way my DD speaks?

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DD who is nearly 6 is developing a real Manchester accent. I know I live in Manchester, but I speak 'naicely' and would prefer her to do so too. Every time she calls me 'Mumm-eh' its like fingers down a blackboard and I always say 'its mumm-ee', well actually I normally hiss it. DH hates the fact I correct her and says that as we live in Manchester, that is her accent and I should get used to it. AIBU?

FFS

Send her to speech therapy if you're that bothered.. i have several accents, lol.

My parents/family are brummy, so when i'm being lazy my accent is brummy.

My DH is welsh, so when i've been around his family i have a vague welshness to my tone.

I live in shropshire, so my native accent is a melting pot of midlands accents

But.. i used to have really nasty lisp and had to have speech therapy, so i can speak 'naice' english too.

Send her to speech therapy if you're that bothered.. i have several accents, lol.

My parents/family are brummy, so when i'm being lazy my accent is brummy.

My DH is welsh, so when i've been around his family i have a vague welshness to my tone.

I live in shropshire, so my native accent is a melting pot of midlands accents

But.. i used to have really nasty lisp and had to have speech therapy, so i can speak 'naice' english too.

My ds calls me m-o-mmy (lord knows where he gets this American slant from ) should i correct him? because its mumm-eee and not m-o-mmy?

I DONT think so!! i'm grateful he has the ability to talk and is a healthy normal child. FFS such snobbery!

Oh its very snobbish to be ashamed how your dd speaks.

If you want her to have a neutral accent then why are you living in Manchester?

I have a regional accent, though not as bad as DP's and DS has one too, obviously!

Not very keen on the accent, but not really aware of it on a daily basis, unless i go somewhere else, where people speak differently!Dont particularly like our accent, but unless i pay for eloculution lessons, or consciously try and speak different then theres not much i can do. And why would i wanmt to pretend to be someone im not and act like i wasnt brought up in this city?

my dd(6) speaks RP at home, and Ayrshire at school.

She absolutely refuses to use the word, "lavatory" though, and doesn't say "may"

I knew someone would post that I am lucky my child speaks, so apologies to those with non verbal DC's. Yes perhaps it is misplaced snobbery and therefore not at all classy, but I am just thinking of the future. Maybe when I said I hate it, I was exaggerating slightly , but I'm glad to see some people can see my point. I live here because this is where I ended up, via Birmingham, Shropshire, Wales and Cheshire, so maybe that is why I don't have an accent as such. Unfortunately the posh school is out of the question, financially, so I shall just grin and bear the rest of the accent, but may still continue to correct the 'mumm-eh'.

What do you mean 'you don't have an accent', though?@suwoo. Not possible. You must sound like you're from somewhere.

You are not being unreasonable at all and this is why we moved to London after living near Stoke!!

DS came home from school saying booooook and coooooook and loooooooooook and sounded so Stokey! I hated it.

He now has a slight Southern accent and my brother comments on it all the time but I dont care!!

Before I get flamed, DH is Italian and I am from Lancashire so there is a huge mix of accents in our house anyway.

You dont have an accent

Ah, Collision, not seen you around for a while, lol.

How's things?

You moved just so your dc would not say booook or cooook how sad.

OK, I must have an accent of course, but not one you could specifically place as being scouse, Stoke, Birmingham etc, I suppose I must sound vaguely northern?

not really vinegar!!!!!

We lived in Cheshire and had to move and it was a relief to realise that DS would not speak with a Stokey accent after all!

(No offense intended to Stoke people!)

(and I'm a Stokie, but say buck, cuck and luck.)

am rofl at the thought of you moving because your son says boooook, cooook and looook.

as if.

But surely do realise that people who care about these things are hideous snobs?@suwoo. They probably look down on your 'vaguely Northern' accent, too.

Collision, I can see where you are coming from with the Stoke accent...sounds nice on Robbie, but thats about it, 'tint it'.

Hi Rebel.

Am fine. You? Changed my name for a while but got bored as no one 'knew' me!!!!

I know mrsmattie, I am a hideously misguided chav snob

At least you acknowledge it and 'own' it@suwoo

Fine thanks, enjoying half-term.

Oh lordy, if Robbie's the best we can do, then we're all dooooomed, dooomed I tell ya.

Of course I am a hideous snob!! I know!!

And as a Northerner in London I say 'barth and grarss and carstle'.

I must sound like a real nutter!! LOL!!