DD has s funny accent.

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I'm from London, DH from America, but for some reason, and I'm not joking, DD talks like an Italian Cockney. She sounds exactly like Giorgio Locatelli, a cross between Dick van Dyke and somebody in a Ragu advert.

I don't know why. It doesn't really worry me, but it is very strange.

Anyone else have a child that sounds nothing like them? Do they grow out of it?

hi pie, i'm from up north and my partner is irish and my dd talks nothing like any of us. Infact she talks really posh! it's great Would love to hear your dd!

It sounds very sweet, and rather hilarious! My dh is English, I'm English but with a bit of a Welsh accent (from my mum), and my children have both been born and spent their whole lives in Scotland. Strangely though the older one sounds completely English, and the younger one completely Scottish. Does your dd have an Italian friend or anything?

hi pie my dh is from durham and i'm spanish and my two ds(5) and dd(3)talk without any accent at all everyone says they sound posh

DD doesn't have any Italian friends...its very odd, somedays she is more 'Cor Blimey' (she actually says things like this) than Italian though.

Just thought I should point out that she has never watched Mary Poppins in case anyone thinks it is having an undue influence

My DD's accent changes all the time! We are from Newcastle and she fluctuates from broad geordie to verrrrrrrrrry posh!

Becca
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Beccaroll we're close i'm from the North East too,

Ultimately I think children talk with the accent of where they live and go to school, not where their parents are from. From my parents I have retained some pronnunciations (garidge, not garagshe) and vocab (couch not sofa).

Thunderbird, I have lived in the same square mile my entire life, and DD is actually going to the same school I went to...but she sounds nothing like me!!!

I saw an episode of Dangermouse last night and there had been body swapping going on...

Actually maybe I think that she sounds nothing like me and I talk funny too.

Dd sounds like a cockney, but slips into posh mode when around people she doesn't know, and sometimes when we're out at the shops. We get some funny looks especially since her nanna taught her my old mans a dust man and she sings it in her best cockney accent.

Dp has a Brummie accent and I lack an accent so sound far too posh.

Is she like Dick van dyke in Mary Poppins?

Maybe.........

I'm English and my DH is a Kiwi. We lived in London for around 10 years before moving to Nottingham where I grew up. Then we lived in Australia for the best part of a year.

DD speaks a mixture of Brit and Kiwi idioms and also uses the occasional flat vowel! I know my speech has become more local since I moved back here but I spent a week doing market research on local streets last week and the number of people who remarked that I wasn't from 'round here'!

DD had a hard time with phonetics when she started school as DH and I have completely different vowel sounds but I think she coped better than we did

Whereabout Angeliz..?

If you dont mind me asking!

Becca
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funny one this pie - DP and I live in manchester and both from 'up north' although don't really have any noticeable accent but DS (2) speaks like a cockney. He says "Aw right, darhhlin'" and other similar stuff. very oddd. his nursery nurse is from down south but she certainly doesn't talk like that - unless she's giving him secret lessons

DH and I are English but have lived in Scotland for over 20yrs. Three of our children were born here but not one of them has a Scots accent and two of them sound very posh. My siblings still live in Kent and they sound very Kentish; dh and I seem to have lost most of that yet haven't picked up Scots. I do use Scottish idioms, though, and a few Indonesian ones.

I have a friend who went to school in Glasgow from Primary age alongside her now dh, yet they sound nothing like each other. He is incomprehensible to me!!

DH and I are scots and have scottish accents but the kids both have cockney accents!and we live in east london so definelty where they live rather than listening to us

My dh is from Hartlepool and I'm from California and our ds has a decidedly Irish accent. (His childminder has a mild irish accent, but his is full-on!!). Though he does through in the occasional americanism like "wow" and the northeastern touch like "me daddy."

My dd (3.5)has a bizzare accent too. We live in Scotland, I'm scottish, dh is irish, and her childminder is from Brighton. SO she is a mixture of them all. Some days she sounds really english, but then she says 'cow' with a really strong Belfast accent and we all fall about laughing.
She's got much more 'local' soundsing since she started at nursery every morning and comes out with an occasional Gaelic word now and then (usually to express frustration!)

oh Becca you don't want to know...... Sunderland!!Shall i get me coat?

Our ds1 is 3yrs. Since learning to talk (v.recently) has had a strong scots accent, a Geordie accent, and is now leaning towards scouse. Me & dh are from the East Anglian area. No idea which accent he'll pick up next!

DD seems to struggle with some letter combinations and then sounds quite cockney (gewrls, instead of girls). DH and i both a bit on the posh side, but I get self-conscious about sounding stuck-up so tend to adopt a hint of wherever i'm livingor whoever I'm speaking to. My dad commented that i now sound scouse at times not my favourite accent, but we're living on Merseyside!

DD has definitely got the start of a scouse whine since we moved which is quite funny as her idiom and vocab are very South Wales.

It's quite lucky that school wiped out my accent as otherwise I'd be an intriguing combination of West Wales (where i grew up) Genovese/Mallorquin (dad) and genteel Cardiff (mum).

That is interesting about the cockney theme - I am american, my husband british and my 2.5 dd definitely sounds rather cockney sometimes. I always attributed it to us living in the East End!