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

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Heqet · 02/01/2010 11:12

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.

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FlamingBird · 02/01/2010 15:46

trash and garbage truck pisses me off too.

Blu · 02/01/2010 15:52

And LOL at letTherbeRock flinching at 'candy' at her 'bake sales'!

CAKE sale!

When DP has been communing with his NY dwelling sister too long he starts using 'gonna' in e mails - a crime against language.

purpleduck · 02/01/2010 15:54

I always thought "aeroplane" sounded slightly 1920's ish to me

schroeder · 02/01/2010 15:55

I went to high school in Norfolk in the eighties and am often told off when I refer to it that way.
Argh I'm finding quite hard to write in this thread as I know the grammar police are watching me!

Anyway I too would not tolerate candy! It's not a problem in our house, but "dumb" is

Blu · 02/01/2010 15:58

Yes, the secondary school I went to was called High School, but that' DIFFERENT! It was still secondary school, I wasn't 'in' high school at High, I was AT secondary school at *High!

Oh, and it's 'what I did AT the weekend' not 'ON the weekend'!

QOD · 02/01/2010 16:04

My dd had an aussie accent for a while - thanks to the Wiggles LOL

dinoroar · 02/01/2010 16:07

I really like the Americanised "candy". Perhaps I'm in the minority, but I think it's nice!

Oh, and I really like American TV. In fact America is great! OP - embrace it .

alana39 · 02/01/2010 16:14

Anyone else's Ben 10 obsessed boys talk about their "butt" in an American accent too? DH is forever saying "it's bottom, you're not American". I am tempted just to tell them it's "arse" which they will probably realise is naughty and like the sound of - might annoy me less than the fake accent.

Jux · 02/01/2010 16:19

YANBU. Drives me nuts. DH says movie instead of film and that sends me crackers too

LetThereBeRock · 02/01/2010 16:19

Oh but I like the sound of cake and candy sales.
It sounds so much more enticing than just a cake sale, cake good, candy good, cake and candy even better.
My mind went blank and I couldn't remember the correct term for the sale of baked goods

schroeder · 02/01/2010 16:20

Ah, but my High school was really a High school< there was First School then Middle School then High School. Odd isn't it where I live now some people still take the 11+ and when I was growing up I would have sworn blind it had been abolished. Little pockets of difference exsist in this tiny country it's quite nice really.

In lancashire they call trousers pants and fizzy drinks POP.

LetThereBeRock · 02/01/2010 16:20

It's most definitely Santa here Minnie,here being Scotland.

islandofsodor · 02/01/2010 16:26

Thats interesting about the high school thing becasue where I live high schools have always been referred to as high school, except the private school which is referred to as the senior school.

Paolosgirl · 02/01/2010 16:27

Second that, Rock. Father Christmas is very English...

said · 02/01/2010 16:29

Oh, I speak in an American 'Toy Story' mom kind of accent quite a lot. It's one of my calming-myself-down-in-the-face-of-demanding-children techniques

Scout19075 · 02/01/2010 16:45

Hmmm. Reading some of these posts, my poor son, growing up in the UK with an English father and American mother. When I was pregnant my American-English to British-English dictionary seemed to have been erased, so all my DS heard before birth were the American words. Now that he's here the dictionary is back but still not fully working, so he gets a 50/50 mix of vocabuary. Will often say things like "nappy" and "diaper" in the same sentence....

Flamesparrow · 02/01/2010 16:57

Scout - it is allowed if it is YOUR language imo, tis just tv influenced that irks.

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Heqet · 02/01/2010 17:07

exactly, flame! Mine don't have an american parent. They have an english one and a kenyan one . I refuse to allow Ben10 to determine my children's accents!

This isn't a 'go' at anyone who actually has a particular accent! It's a moan about my children, who don't have a particular accent, faking it in a very annoying way!

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Scout19075 · 02/01/2010 17:18

Oh, I know. Was just wondering how much my son's Anglo-American accent will wind others up as he gets big. He lives in England, after all....

Flamesparrow · 02/01/2010 17:21

Nope, just my own children annoy me

Original poster
Heqet · 02/01/2010 17:23

Oh, flame, while I have you - I changed my mobile number and forgot to transfer you over.

If you email me, then we can talk sausages

mud24 at hotmail dot co dot uk

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BananaPudding · 02/01/2010 17:41

Dd likes to speak in a British accent after watching Angelina Ballerina. She's really quite good at it, and it doesn't bother us at all. I don't quite understand why children playing with accents and different words produces so much ire?

She also asked today if we could get Hobnobs "you know mom, the chocolate oaty-nobbly biscuits?". Perhaps I should have told her it's a cookie, as she's not British

PortiaPie · 02/01/2010 17:57

The high rising terminal seems to have become very popular in this country over the past few years. I can't decide if it's America or Australia to blame for it. Can't stand it though!

Flamesparrow · 02/01/2010 18:08

Lol - I thought that was going to say "I changed my mobile number and you can't have it"

AllThreeWays · 02/01/2010 21:49

In Australia the postie brings the mail, and we but the rubbish in the garbage bin