Dropping her T’s

[Stick0rTwist]

My daughter has just gone into Yr1 and is an articulate child, relatively smart with a love for reading.

We moved her to a new school in the new year and have noticed since then she has started dropping her t’s when saying many of her words, like water, better, bottle, little etc.

This gets corrected consistently at home as although we don’t speak the queens English (and are not snobbish by any stretch of the imagination) we would prefer her to speak properly and not get into bad habits speech wise.

Over the summer holidays she was fine, but I’ve noticed in the two days she’s been back her speech has reverted back.

So here’s the AIBU - would I be unreasonable to mention this to her teacher? Or would I sound like a massive snob 🙈

Sounds dramatic but it’s even making me want to move her school again as this was not a problem at her old school at all. Its been a direct result of moving school as it started the week we moved.

I remember thinking the same thing op. Ds spoke perfectly at his primary and secondary schools.. as soon as he left he spoke differently. I remember feeling sad!

@TheOtherAgentJohnson ,I'm not 'so educated', as you put it.
I went to school and went to university.

Either that or it's tediously performative incomprehension, that she imagines makes her look clever (rather than a pompous wazzock).
I'm not the only one who struggled with moe-sher. You are truly unpleasant.

Thank you 😀

Now I know what you mean exactly, I think I do that myself too! The way they say Scott and date sounds very normal to me. I don’t think sh represents the sound well at all (I know you said it didn’t).

He's got several Ts going on there, and one of them was very close to a sh sound.

How bloody ridiculous, of course they knew how to make the "t" sound in water, they just don't because in that dialect/accent the glottal stop is used.

@Dramatic , are you calling @Gagagardener a liar? She was there, you weren't.

I live there 😂

But you weren't there with that group of teenagers.

Oh yeah I've only lived and worked with kids and teens and grown up here, obviously teens from teesside are such underclass thickos that they have no idea where to put their tongue in their mouth to make a "t" sound 🙄

teens from teesside are such underclass thickos
No one but you has used those words, @Dramatic .

That was the obvious undertone to her post. You can pretend otherwise if you like.

@Dramatic , She referred to a group of teenagers, not to everyone in area.

This happened to me @Stick0rTwist so I was sent for elocution lessons which actually turned out to be a super hobby but also massively helped my confidence as a child and in mt teens. It has been incredibly useful as an adult. Public speaking skills, the ability to properly project my voice without shouting, reciting poems and prose (party trick) and a wealth of knowledge about literature beyond anything I learned in education.

Silly comment.

Wait till she calls you Bruv - Bruh and uses the slang

My 5 year old dc came home to a surprise today and the response was ' what the sigma?' Whateve that's meant to mean but they certainly never said it before returning to school , apparently 3 boys in class say it.

I was the same with my son. He started picking up the wrong pronunciation of some words when he started school. I hate words starting with TH being pronounced F.
I remember a lady I used to work with telling me about a pub call the Free Feathers - she meant the Three Feathers!! You’re right to keep correcting your children. It’s not being snobbish it’s bringing up your children correctly 👍

My mother was English but we lived in Ireland. She constantly corrected my speech because I spoke like the locals. It's very degrading to be corrected. I believe it made me very shy.

I think it will iron out it's self. I wouldn't correct her too much it can be disheartening for both of you.
I suddenly got a vision fly through my head of you going to school asking for her teacher and her coming out with a broad accent & no 'T's in sight👀😳. I'd leave it imo.

Peer pressure. I hate the glottal stop and I admit I am probably being very unreasonable. I tell my DGD ‘ Don’t miss out the T, sweetheart. It makes you sound common and not very clever.’ Lol

I hate the dropping of Ts. My academic DD started saying La'in for Latin and then I met her teacher...from Somerse' 😁

Maybe quietly mention it to the teacher if you're worried it's a speech issue... Otherwise just speak normally to her at home.

I don't associate dropped Ts with the Midlands so I'd be a bit concerned... Especially with the distance you've travelled!

As a mum of 4 honestly I can say this will be just to fit in with others speak like her friends also as a northerner we often drop letters as part of our vocabulary whilst we still remain well educated and in exceptionally good jobs. It will have no impact on her future or job prospects

Ewwww your snob is showing put it away noone wants to see it 🤮🤮🤮🤮

I do understand why it would annoy you but the teacher won’t be able to help. Only you can decide whether you want to move her or not but it will be fitting in with her peers so is it worth all the upheaval?