Regional accent, will ds1 adopt it?

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Both my husband and I are from a different area and our 4 year old son has started to develop the local regional accent of where we live now.
It is very strong and before he started preschool he pronounced words the same way me and DH did. However, as he is mixing with other children his accent is changing. Will he have a mixture of the accents?
I just thought that some of my own accent would prevail
I am yet to find out who his teacher will be so have no idea what his/her accent will be for pronunciation.
Can anyone tell me what their own experience is with their children. Thanks

I am northern living in SW London. I've not got a really strong accent, but pronounce grASS, cAStle, bAth etc etc. DS1 has none of this and pronounces with the r sound included (if that makes any sense at all!)

I think they will pick of the accent of people/children at school, friends etc. Also thinking of it SIL lives in Canada, is British and both her DD have Canadian accents.

I'm from Hereford so have a bit of an ooh-arr twang,dh is from Glasgow.All 3 DSs born Darn Sarf and sound like it too.
Sorry.
Don't quite know what you're getting at?Do you want your children to sound different to all their friends at school or were you hoping to pass on your accent genetically?

I have a friend from Birmingham who was sent to elocution lessons which worked a treat until she was tired or drunk!
She's moved back there now and sounds like Noddy Holder!So that was money well wasted IMO.

DP is from the north east of scotland and I am from Glasgow and dd well she was born and bred north east scotland and you would never believe it, she does have a scottish accent (mostly lol) but she does say grarss and barth and people often have a wee quiet giggle abot her posh voice.

Between our 2 families (an cbeebies) she has a total mixture of accents talking to her and she is still trying to make sense of it all and has a bit of everyone in there.

He probably will lean more towards a regional accent as he mixes more with his peers but will probably never totally have it, to locals he will sound like he isn't local and anywhere else his accent will seem strong.

kids pretty much take on the accent local to them regardless of parental accents. of course there will be excpetions, but it's mostly the case

He will want to conform with the crowd at school. Think you haven't a hope of passing on your accent really. If it's strong, I'm sure he'll sound very manly with it one day!

Ok I confess all, the local accent is Yorkshire and he is starting to say nerr for no, currrt for coat etc, both my DH and I have posh (if you can believe it) Lancashire accents.

My Mum has a relatively posh northern accent but went to a grammar school but still retains some of her own grandmother's irish accent when she says certain words.

I was hoping that he would retain some of our accent, ah well, you can't win them all

'A relatively posh Northern accent'

I wonder if ds will adopt my 'relatively working class Norfolk bumpkin accent' lol!

FF I do have a posh one I certainly do not sound like anyone on Coronation Street or Roary the Racing Car

Is it worth moving?

I am a Surrey girl living in Bristol. DH is from north London. DS is developing a good old Brissle accent. I love it!

I have English friends with "Queen's English" accents who live in Auckland. Their DSs are really kiwi.

Are you worried about it?

different accents are wonderful and should be encouraged imo. mine is completely f*cked up because my parents were well spoken Glaswegiens, i was brought up in the highlands and we lived with a very posh family. no one knows where i'm from and it is great!

I'm not particularly bothered but some of the words are so strong I think I will need someone to translate for me

Fizzy ? is this East yorks by any chance ? they seem to do the enlognated vowel sound type thing that makes a simple no (even a bog standard Yorkshire (Leeds) type no sound like noooh ) in to a Neeeerrr ? the litmus test IMO is Gravy - is it Graaavy or Gwraaayvy???

I?m a Leeds born and bread ?til c.25 ? moved to the West Country (now there?s an accent!!) ? never really noticed a Yorkie accent ?till then.

Now over 15 years later, find myself and DS (almost 5) on the East Yorkshire coast and I notice and to my shame hate the accent?so different from the Leeds Yorkshire ?lilt? I remember from years yon??forever correcting DS?s speech ---but at the end of the day, HE IS the one that HAS to fit in and he will never do this if he sounds different so I am beginning to let up on this?..his academic C.V will always let him down, so why bother about his accent???

Errr, it is the Leeds accent

Well then Leeds, I wouldn?t really worry about ? As I said, I was born and bread in Leeds for the first 26 years of my life and it never held me back?..maybe if I?d had a slightly ?posher accent? and had better school addresses to put on my C.V I may have done better ? but I?m more than happy with my lot and hope the same out come for my DS (even thought he will almost certainly have an East Yorks accent)

I hate my accent (Hull) I think it sounds really common but despite us always living here my DS1 doesn't have a strong accent at all, infact he talks quite posh...my youngest is just like a little docker!

LOL Snakepit.DS has a broad Hull accent like his dad.Mine is sightly more refined ,dontcha know

Nowt wrong with a Hull accent really,it is very unique.

I know for a fact that Tom will grow up with a Scottish accent. DF has lived here since he was 7 and has a bit of a Scottish accent.

I say CARstle, BARth (i'm from Berkshire) and DF says cAStle, bAth, as do his parents that come from Nottingham/Derby way.

myself and DH are true Milton Keynes "innits" and DD was developing this accent. We moved just over the border to Northants where the accent is much more "country bumpkin" and since DD has started school she has a 100% Northants accent and not like ours at all. I don't know if that's a good or a bad thing