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?

YABU My children speak posher than I do but it is fine.

think thread is quite snobby tbh

my dc have cornish accent whilst speaking to dh,and i suppose slightly 'posher' when speaking to me.i overheard dd and ds1 argueing this morning about how to pronounce ta.taa or tar.

ds1 sees a speech therapist because he has delay-all i can say is be thankful your child can speak clearly-no matter what the acent.

YANBU - I'd do the same

you are a little as you live there and she is six she cant help picking it up if she is around others who sound like it
if it bothers you that much move to where they talk posh !!!
im from manchester i have one of those awful accents your talking about

yes and i now live south and my dd sounds very posh and totally different from me but that makes her who she is x

Suwoo,the family lived there forever I think.Did some family tree research and one line dates back to 16th century ,all living around Whitefield /Prestwich.
I lived in Unsworth as a child,my cousins live in Radcliffe and always had a stronger accent than me.
I'm sure your DD will have more of a Bury accent than Manchester,going off where you live.It is quite a 'broad' Lancashire accent isn't it? I can understand it must take some getting used to...
My Gran used to say 'Ehh, Burry black puddings,best inth land'!!

My nephew who is three speaks with quite a noticeable Black Country accent. My sister isnt from there but her dp is and thats where they live so its inevitable. Not the best accent to have, but who cares. It doesnt make you thick just cos you have a noticeable accent!(even if it sounds it)

One of the reasons why dh first went out with me was my accent (posh southern) whilst I love his northern accent.

Imo is only northerners who can really swear esp the word "bass-tad", the southern drawled "barstarred" really doesn't cut it! But dh has what I call a generic northern accent, he deliberately lost his home town accent when he went to uni as he thought and his mates agreed that the elongated vowels made him sound a bit simple!

We currently live in the midlands but ds, nearly 4, sounds like he comes from Devon!!

I accept he'll have a local accent wherever we live, but as long as he can speak in SE that's all that matters.

I know how you feel, my dd has developed a strong scouse accent since starting school. It really grates me but it's inevitable because of were we live. I think YBU to correct her though.

I am a geordie but dh has a neutral accent which sound quite posh (to me anyway). We are planning to move back to Newcastle and I'm not too keen on DD having the same accent as me. I am proud of being from Newcastle but have had quite negative comments about my accent (Once when I went for a promotion a Director said I needed elecution lessons!). It is probably other people's problem but I would hate for her to be looked down on just because she had a regional accent.

There is a group on facebook called "I was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and no, I don't have a Geordie accent!"

I was born in Kent, of a Kentish mother and Welsh father, and I don't think I have a Kent accent or any vestige of Welsh, although someone from the North would probably disagree.

I think the accent of my local town (Maidstone) is quite ugly, as are the variations of urban Yorkshire accent (Leeds, Sheffield). Manc can sound nasal and horrible. Rural Yorks is quite nice, as is south-west England and Highland Scottish and Geordie. (Lauren Laverne, woooo-hoo!) Liverpool can grate too in that "ar-ay, ey-ey-ey, Jaccccchi Diccchsson off Broooookie" way, but a light Liverpool accent can even sound quite sexy.

sorry but it is unreasonable. Regional accents are brilliant, and part of who you are, and should be embraced. We don't live in an age where the "queen's english" is preferred or strived towards any more.

I prefer it

YABU.

If you want your child to speak with a particular region, then move there.

My husband and I have regional accents but my children dont. I think it was because there was an influx of English workers to our town and a lot of them went to their school. She defintely sounds more English than Scottish. Although we think she sounds English she gets told she has a Scottish twang. She does however live in England now.

YANBU

I used to live in Manc and hated the accent. Moved when my child was in reception, so luckily it was not picked up. This was one of my reasons for moving.

Ex was from Manc and I was always correcting him. 'I'd say 'its coffeeeeeeeee not coffeh'
Ew just remembering how he spoke makes me feel ill.

Oh and the reason I hate the accent is nothing to do with snobbery, its because the sound goes through me.

I mean, how hard is to say 'mummee'. Everyone knows the ee sound surely?

YAB honest! Both myself and a good friend are married to non-locals and they do find it strange when their DDs speak with broad black country accents. Dh solves this by having occasional speaking Yorkshire lessons for DDs which involves much hilarity for all concerned. Incidentally my BF still blames me for her PFB being the only child in Dulwich who called a slide as 'sloid' very loudly in the park after spending a weekend with me

i love regional accents

most regional accents are grat - i love listening to them

but a true broad manc accent

YABU

I live in Bolton but my dd goes to school in Salford and has picked up twang.I firmly believe its WHAT you say and not HOW you say it thats important.

yes I think so.

My friend moved to Hull from Middlesborough when her daughter was 2 and as she grew up she inevitably started speaking with a Hull accent. My friend would then start spitting stuff like "god will you PLEASE stop talking in that horrible Hull accent" or she would go one further and mimic her and say stuff in an OTT hull accent before adding "it sounds so common!" I was actually quite offended by it all, don't bring your kids up in Hull if you hate the place so much (that's what I thought).

Anyway, we didn't remain friends.

YABU. A friend is from East London. All her family have great accents but she decided it sounded too common for her so speaks 'posh' even though she's spoken like this for 20 odd years it still sounds false and and odd to me.

My boss takes the p out of my northern accent. Told him I was bored and he asked what bared meant. He speaks so posh that no one can understand him on the phone Ha!

Saying that my mum used to correct me.

YABU. Correct grammer by all means, do not correct her accent.

I have a Teesside accent and dh comments when I say Shoe-er for sure. It drives me insane. It's not right or wrong, it's my accent.

My SIL does this to her kids too. She is from London but living in Yorkshire. Her kids say bath she tells them its barth.

Makes me laugh.