Estuary english

[Rollergirl1]

I have a 2 1/2 year old girl. She goes to nursery 2 days a week. We live in surrey. She speaks really well but has this awful kate nash like accent. I am assuring my husband that it's just because she's still learning how to speak but am worried that she's picking up on the girls accents at the nursery.

Has anyone else experienced this?

You have no chance! Ours have lovely northern accents, it's all down to their peers.

I used speak esturary you have my sympathies it is rank.

Be glad you don't live somewhere like I do.

Or

Be glard you don't live sumwhere loike Oi do.

Moi Boiys speak loike this all the toime.

Peer group, see?

her faves:

i have it lataah

i do it tomorowww

Ours have Northern accents but don't know anyone called Piers.

dd at 3

This is a funny thread!

My dd1 (now 8) used to speak like a proper little brummie, eg - in ridiculous rising and falling tone - "oh look at the baaaybooie" (that's baby) she now has a kind of mish mash of brummie (me) and south african (dh) and posh bits that she learnt from her babysitter and/or hermione grainger.

She still hasn't decided whether a bath is a bath or a barth if you get me...

I do think that Kate Nash accent is annoying though, sympathies!

We refuse to answer DS if we feel he is being lazy in his diction. We keep saying pardon, his diction is improving.

It is very wearing for us, but it works.

My daughter has a Somerset accent - she's never been there and we haven't visited Somerset since 1997 and that was for a week.

so what? Really. so what

I bet you're short.

All part of letting go, isn't it? In the long run, your dd will have to decide for herself what accent she wants to retain. You can work on her diction, but eventually there will be all sorts of outside influences on her.

Lotster, stop trying to be my friend.

I love my dds' northern accents, particularly the baby (15 months) - i think its great ...and v v cute

I'm really not fond of RP and love to hear local accents.

Short arse.

Least she can say her r's.