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

Don't think people are thick just because they have an accent, but at school I think it should be kept neutral.

Yes, sorry balloonslayer - I read your posts after and then realized I hadn't read properly wish I could claim the 2 glasses of wine...

anyfink is wrong and isn't a word, my DS's pre-school teacher says yer instead of you, and he's picked it up, does my head in, can't remember the number of times i've said thats not really a word J is actually "you".

Is anyfink in the dictionary??

Not everything has to be correct. It so doesn't matter.

I moved from Portsmouth to Sunderland and my son got refered to a speech therapist by his primary teacher as they thought he had a problem sounding his words out! He spoke beautifully according to his therapist! He was also told he was not allowed to writ mummy on his card as I was actually called a 'mam' I now live in Northants and my kids are growing Brumy accents!!

Anyfink/anything, free/three, baff/bath, fankyou/thankyou. The former pronunciations make my bloody teeth itch. It is so painful to hear. If someone talks to me using those mispronunciations I'm mentally correcting them all the time..

Friend: I fink I'm due on tomorrow
Me:{Think, it's bloody Thuh not Fhuh}Oh really?
Friend: Fanks for the coffe btw
Me:{TH..anks, THUH, THUH, THUH ffs}It's Gold Blend
Friend: I fort it was
Me:{Aargh!!! IT'S THOUGHT, THHHHHUH, THHHHHUH, THUH, THUH}

Etc.... I'm probably sad

Some things do have to be correct though especially if the public is paying your wages so that you can show others the correct way to do things

Where Iteach, my accent is more 'common' than the pupils' accents albeit it that we come fromthe same 'region'. When we are spelling out words, we have a laugh about how the sounds 'a' and 'e' are confusing and I always asl 'a as in apple or e as in egg'. I do not, however, go around saying 'Alreeet marra! It's about time yers were gannin' yem!'. They would look at me like I was bonkers.

Not sure what my point is....

yabu

our daughter sounds like janet street porter and I'm irish my dh is a saffer

tis what it is

Teachers more than anyone should learn to say words correctly, otherwise the children they teach will be confused or even learn the wrong words. Doesnt matter about the accent so long as the words are properly said. Anyfink is wrong, end of.
As are any words where the 'th' is replaced by 'ff'.
Also "arks" instead of "asks" really pisses me off.

I think accents are lovely and I am happy for DD to learn about them and how people speak. But Anyfink is awful whether its said by a Cockney, Brummie, Scouser, Manc, Geordie etc etc.

My boys go to school in Tottenham and the teachers can be as eloquent as anything, it wouldn't make a blind bit of difference. Not everybody would worry about correct speech. I'm intelligent and educated, but drop letters etc. The stereotype isn't true.

YABU - you have waaaay too much time on your hands to start a thread on this. Just correct the mistake and job done.

Ok tell mewhat you think of this real life situation

A northern irish teacher with very specific vowel sounds teaching phonics to north east english children.

They is a difference between accent and dialect....

popsycal, I think your point is that as a teacher you know how to speak appropriately in the classroom?

oh my lord - my keyboard is broken there not they haha

And, AND someone made a point about seeing how far you get talking in an "unacceptable" way in certain circles. My response is people shouldn't have to change how they speak, it's the prejudices that need to change.

"send your child for interview at an Oxbridge college, or with any of the big City instutiions, and see how far they get speaking like that......" .... oh, you'd be so surprised - whether those whom I came across got in though positive discrimination i cannot tell, though that's another thread!!!

i ran a thread last week about ds saying "innit" - initially i thought he must have picked it up from his peers but now i have thought about it, two of the four nursery teachers are really, really cockney so i am no longer sure at whom to point the finger. today i heard one talking about "eating CRIPS" I have been hearing that one for years though never from a grown-up ; surely they eat enough of those to know how it is pronounced.

funny story about 'th' being pronounced 'f' - when i was 10 years old, my gormless sister answered the phone. somebody was calling about (the binding of) my dad's THEsis. she approached my dad, informing him that a man had called about his poo (i.e faeces)

"the public is paying your wages so that you can show others the correct way to do things "

As I said before, pronunciation is NOT on the national curriculum. Speaking and listening is, but it is NOT the same thing.

What else do you think the public is paying that woman's wages to teach your child:

• blowing their nose?
• wiping their bottom?
• getting dressed?
• using a knife and fork?
• basic manners?

All of the above are things which - along with speaking properly - used to be considered the responsibility of the parents, yet are now more and more often being left to teachers to sort out.

And we wonder why there is less time left over to teach them to read, write and do sums.

rofl@ waaaaaaay too much time

Maybe the teacher just slipped up anyway.

balloonslayer , that is absolute tosh

lol zebramummy!!!!

Oh well at least we're disagreeing in a civil manner and not killing each other yet you tossers

Oh no!