to be miffed that dd2's teacher says 'anyfink'?

[kittywise]

dd2 came home the other day saying that her teacher had said 'anyfink' and 'that wasn't right was it'?

I said that it wasn't right.

She's a primary school teacher fhs. She should be able to pronounce words properly

YABU. My dd occasionally comes out with Australian pronunciation from her teacher, I don't get airyated about it. You should be able to model your child's speech at home.

YANBU - it's nothing to do with accents, the word is being mispronounced and it could lead to misunderstandings about spelling and definition.

I HATE people saying 'anythink' or 'everythink'. Simon Cowell does it. It's not a word, it's ridiculous.

But, having said that, I do think YABU as teachers are actually human and cannot possibly be perfect 24/7.

DD's new Yr 3 teacher says f too. At the start of term meeting we neard all about the maths lessons and finking etc.

I don't like it as although we speak with a broad regional accent we have always emphasised good diction.

Her previous teachers have all been quite posh and she picked up a bit of a posh southern accent from them to go with her broad potteries!

I'd find that annoying too, but then DD's teacher drives me DEMENTED every day by calling lunch 'dinner', so I am perhaps a little sensitive to such things before 9am.

PC- round here we have breakfast, dinner and tea. No 'lunch'.

That would be mafs lessons of course!

YABU Im a cockney and always try to speak "proper" , but sometimes I just forget myself and drop me t's and h's,nuthink wrong wiv that luv. And yes I call dinner tea and lunch dinner who gives a toss really?

You do not say "anyfink" because you have a regional accent. You say it because you cannot speak properly.

I'd have to disagree with you Dad, I am a Londoner too (hello dumpling), and if I don't think about it, I slide into Pat Butcher land and her way of speaking. It isn't because I can't speak properly, just my regional accent.
People get very snotty about London accents and estuary english, you seldom hear comments about scousers or mancs which, to my way of thinking are horrid accents (and I'm married to a mancunian).

Anyfink certainly winds me up less that the use of the word "brought" when they mean "bought" and "I done it" for "I did it"!!!

Bloody Southerners!

Oi I can talk properly, I'm a good girl I am

Be glad that you aren't in her class and don't have to hear it all the time I'd be grinding my teeth in frustration within minutes! But that is my problem. I hate glottal stops, 'fevver' for feather and 'anythink'.... but whether it's accent, dialect, sociolect (thanks for that cory ) it has become normalised and we just have to grin and bear it.

I still nag my children about their speech at home. Usually they behave but if they are really pissed off with me their speech goes right down the swanney

mispronouncing words is nothing to do with where you are from.

it's like saying it's ok to call it bersketti instead of spaghetti - because you're from a certain area. You just sound thick.

I have one particular neighbour who never gets words or phrases right. I don't correct her of course. But everytime she mispronounces something my inner school mistress gives a little 'ahem'. It can get quite uncomfortable.

She says for example Mitsubitsy for Mitubishi. She had cytisius the other day. Traditional review for judicial review. And little phrases like hammer and tongs get changed in odd ways that make no sense - hammer and bangs - ???.

Also hate it when people get teach/learn and borrow/lend the wrong way round!

"Anyfink" is lazy,though.

And dinner-isn´t that the main meal of the day, so you can have dinner at midday or in the evening?

We eat breakfast,dinner & tea most days.

Sometimes, we have breakfast, lunch and dinner, though.

It´s easy here, you eat breakfast, midday meal & evening meal!

well i'm not thick either, just don't see the problem unless of course your stuck up and not common like moi

You never actually heard her yourself so stop stressing about it. Alternatively make an appointment with the Head and see what response you get, would like to be a fly on the wall for that one!

Hear hear sugardumpling. I'm common and vulgar.(according to a former colleague of my dh)

Oh yeah Kreech, vulgar too btw I hope that colleague of your DH was joking!

YANBU.It is just plain wrong.

It's a regional thing and clearly I wouldn't be welcome in your social circles as this is how I speak.

what can seem like a harmless accent when you are a child can negatively affect the way people percieve you at work as an adult

hear hear Onagar

You are all missing the point - this woman is a TEACHER.

Surely not speaking correctly will make it more difficult for the children to spell correctrly ?