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

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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.

Diaper is the one that really annoys me...FFS it's a bloody NAPPY!!!

(Sorry for the shoutyness, but I had a massive row with my 6yo DS2 only last week about that one!!).

It's a lost cause.

All the teenagers, who, like, live near me?

They talk as if like, everything they say is a question? And they like, all hang out in Starbucks? And call each other babe?

Like, oh my god? You know?

And I live in Edinburgh ffs!!

Madam, where do you live? I am surrounded by "Good 'Ol Boys" too.

My friend is from South Carolina, but her father is English. She was banned from using "y'all" as a child - it was the one word he couldn't abide, and this was 30 years ago. It's not, like, y'know, a new thing I guess?

Bananapudding: because this is not about children experimenting with accents it is about nothing short of cultural takeover!

if that's the only thing you've got to argue about then YANBU, I don't like all the Americanisms either. But depends on the age of your child... you need to choose your battles... if you have teens/pre-teens, using the word "candy" is far preferable to drugs, alcohol, or unprotected sex!!But am assuming you have LO's so would agree YANBU

yes, but kids "over there" (I include canada too) are starting to use British-isms!!

Nothing is lost, its just been relocated

lilo - they are 9 & 10, so not little, but drugs, alcohol and unprotected sex are not things we have to worry about! (phew! )

I suppose I should really just be grateful they are talking

i went to a high school..haven't UK secondary schools ever been known thus?

far less objectional than, say, community college

darth vader.

'high school' not something I ever came across as a child, edgar.

Riven, I always thought that Prof Hawkins was Ameerican because his communication aid has an American voice.

OP, if the word candy annoys you so much, just don't respond to it.
Next time DS asks for candy just say sorry I haven't got any. I have some sweets. Then make him ask for sweets.

It does work. I use a similiar trick when the 2 and 3 year olds I work with say 'what?'.
Now, that really irritates me. I always say 'pardon' every time when of them says 'what'. We could go for a while, exchanging 'what' and 'pardons', till they finally say 'pardon'

STROLLER rather than the pushchair.
Anyone noticed when people have been to the states they think they're being really cool . i.e.'Would you like ...'
'no I'm good'!
FFS

YANBU. MIL calls sweets toffees - whether or not they are - and for some reason it drives me nut.

purepurple- 'pardon' is very non U. 'what' is right! that is if you're bothered by such things

I think YAB a bit U, as the weird accent picking up can be part of the SN/language delay. Ds's accent is a weird mix of Scouse, received pronunication, and American. . So we have "poomas" and "jagwars" courtesy of Dora, "girarfe" and "barthe" and "grarse" courtesy of the Sing and Sign DVDS

DH uses Mom, drives me nuts, thought it was just him being unable to spell (doesn't sound noticeably different from Mum the way he says it), but no, at last, I know why, he's from the West Midlands. I have let it go for 13 years as far as his mum goes, but have clamped down completely on him getting our DCs to write Mom on cards to me, it's Mum or Mummy.

ruddynorah
non U or U, makes no difference to me
what is just rude