To demand that my son does not say "candy"?

[Heqet]

I rather suspect I am. He says "cayndy" in a very american accent. I HATE it. I snap that he is not american and the word is SWEETS, or CHOCOLATE

erm, depending on whether he is talking about sweets or chocolate

It drives me up the wall, this fake american accent.

Can I just say that I am in no way bashing people's ACTUAL accents! I have said this several times already!!! I am talking about fake accents!

I don't understand why some people are taking offence.

there's a big difference between someone's actual accent (fine, who cares, it's their accent) and someone putting on an accent (bloody annoying!)

We get it, Heq, not to worry! And if someone doesn't get it they obviously have no sense of humor and aren't worth it anyway.

On the flipside of this thread, DS and I watched the Masterpiece Theatre version of Pollyanna last night, and all morning he was singing, "In the summ-ah suuuunnn..." over and over and over like I'd plucked him straight orf the streets of Lunnon town!

Would like to have heard that Cheerful - sounds like a larf

Oh it was! Right up there with the time we both had strep throat and lay about on the couch watching endless episodes of Charlie and Lola. DS: "I will not nev-ah EV-AH eat a to-MAH-to!"

I love it!