My children have Dublin accents

[MaLarkinn]

and I fucking hate it!

There, i said it.

Could be worse. Could be a culchie accent
What accent do you have? Its disconcerting when your LOs have a different accent to you alright!

You sound like my DM 😂

Dublin as in very common? Or Dublin as in a Dublin accent? IMHO either is better than the American accent so many kids seem to have today. My DD2 uses a lot of americanisms although she doesn't have the actual accent. I'm always correcting her.

I've got a bit of a common Dublin accent. I drop my t's a lot. I used to be a bit ashamed of it but lately I've just accepted that that's who I am. I was born and raised in working class Dublin and actually I'm quite proud of that.

@WipeYourFeet I speak like the Queen 😊 I just have a very neutral English accent. Not bothered that they have a different accent I just wish it was a bit softer.

@BrennieGirl yes it's very common. My eldest 2 have strong accents and they can't be saved now
My youngest hasn't been ruined just yet. Of course I say all this in jest, but still.

@brenniegirl oh god that American thing is awful isn't it.
I wouldn't them dropping the it's so much, it's the dropped he's I can't bear.

I love the Dublin accent . My Scottish daughter years back asked if she could have Irish lessons so she could have an Irish accent

I've rough edges on my Dublin accent, DH is Blackrock college and the kids are calling me mummy I don't think I'll be happy with their accents either

I'm pure scouse. My family is pure scouse.

My Dd sounds like she's had elocution lessons. She sounds well spoken, posh.

No idea how. She's eight.

DH and I have pretty neutral Scottish accents, people not from Scotland can understand us.
DS2 genuinely sounds like he's from Croydon. I have no idea how. He's also now saying dinnae and cannae and he sounds like he's taking the piss!

YANBU. I like a Dublin accent but would die if I had to raise my kids in England for some reason and they came home speaking ‘like the queen’. I’d probably disown them in fact! Or send them to Dublin for re-education

My kids have American accents because they’re being raised in the US but I’m fine with that. Their American accent is pretty neutral to my ears. Personally I couldn’t raise my kids in a place that had an accent I hate but that’s just me.

My three started out with very 'naice' English accents thanks to where we lived in the south of England. Then we moved to Ireland, when they were aged between six and two.

Within two weeks of moving to DH's native mid-West they'd lost their slightly posh English accents altogether and picked up a version of the lovely, soft local accent. I'm sure my northern English vowels sounds helped a bit

I am not a fan of any Dublin accents (sorry!) but I love the accent my lot have now. To Irish people they sound Irish with a bit English in there somewhere, to English people they sound Irish.

We have a video tape of the three of them chatting away when we first moved here, their accents are completely different now. It's amazing what they do to fit in.

@SuddenArborealStop i used to be mummy, then mammy and now its maaaaaaaa 😭😭

Ah don't worry OP. I get you. I'm no accented English. Not quite the queen but close. DH although born here in Newcastle has a Peterborough burgh, which incase no one's familiar sounds like a posh cockney. DS is turning Geordie. He was playing on a game a few days ago and laughed and went "mammy, a deid." I replied "It's I died, darling." I nearly bloody died and all when that came out.

My kids have south side Dublin accents, not American sounding though. I hate it. I’m Irish, but from Munster. Worse again, they support the Dubs!

Non-accented* I mean

Why do so many English people describe themselves as having no accent? Unless you are mute, it's not possible to have no accent. You have an accent, it's just that it's your accent.

Yep, everyone has an accent. You could argue there are ‘neutral’ accents versus regional accents e.g. the accent where I live in the US versus a ‘Noo Yawk’ accent that is associated with one city but neutral accents are still an accent and their neutrality is a matter of opinion. If you live in New York, that accent might just be the local ‘neutral’ accent. An English accent of any variety is definitely not neutral in Ireland, for example.

The cure for this is to go to Arklow my friend.

You will have your hands over your ears yelping in pain.

I have worked with a few people from Arklow. It is the most comically awful accent and a few flat ''uh'' sounds can't compare.

@Whiskeylover45

Ah don't worry OP. I get you. I'm no accented English. Not quite the queen but close. DH although born here in Newcastle has a Peterborough burgh, which incase no one's familiar sounds like a posh cockney. DS is turning Geordie. He was playing on a game a few days ago and laughed and went "mammy, a deid." I replied "It's I died, darling." I nearly bloody died and all when that came out.

I think a lot of English people are unaware of how long drawn out some of their vowel sounds are. People from the south of England erroneously believe that they have no accent. And then they muuuuuuuudduh wuuuuuudz with their long drawn out vowels. That is an accent.

I have the much maligned south dublin accent. People with more traditional Dublin accents are often rude to my face! I know we all have our own preferences, but I wish my DC spoke like I do. dc1 hangs around with a nice bunch of girls and her accent is the strongest! She sometimes mocks me and and because you're not actually supposed to mock your own children I say nothing.

But example, the way we say talk is so different. I say tawk. She says it more like tohkk. I was tohkking to him. It sounds so flat to my ear.

@wellthatsunusual

Why do so many English people describe themselves as having no accent? Unless you are mute, it's not possible to have no accent. You have an accent, it's just that it's your accent.

That's exactly what I was going to say. It seems to be a common delusion. Of course you have an accent, OP. Your children may even find it embarrassing or awful and wish you sounded a bit more 'normal' and less like the Queen. Who really isn't someone your children probably want you to sound like, or exactly a speech role model.

Well i thought the op was tongue in cheek when she said "like the queen" as nobody speaks like the queen, except maybe princess anne. Not even william or beatrice or zara et al speak like the queen.

In fact, william sounds a bit "awright mate," at times 😂

@WhatWouldZenoDo

Well i thought the op was tongue in cheek when she said "like the queen" as nobody speaks like the queen, except maybe princess anne. Not even william or beatrice or zara et al speak like the queen.

Well, you would, wouldn't you, only it comes up all the time on threads on here, usually in the context of someone who appears to genuinely believe they magically have no accent.