Feeling sad that my children have different accents and we cannot move back

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Does anyone struggle with bringing up children in a different area/country and their children have different accents and feel sad they don’t sound like you?

and wanting to move back but knowing you can’t now ever due to children…

I’m in the North of England, I hear the same. I seen, I done, we was. No Gaelic here. My wee granny, born around 1880, North of Aberdeen, used lots of old Scots words, but never poor grammar.

My six year old DGD has started noticing my short(ish) A's. So much for me thinking that my Ear Midlands accent had pretty much disappeared after 50 years in the southeast'.

Yesterday I said something that included the word path. She looked at me in a vaguely correcting way and said "path?" in my accent. So I'm going to go tit for tat and start correcting her glottal stop 😅

My parents were from the west country , with accents to match . I was born there also but went to a posh school so I don't sound like them . It's made no difference in my life .

are we talking different country or region?

I’ve got a different accent to my parents (who have different accents from eachother) and now I’ve met & married someone with a different accent. Our kids have a different accent (to me anyway). And honestly it doesn’t bother me in the slightest, maybe it’s something I don’t particularly place value on though because of my own parents.

EAST Midlands!

I was talking about Scotland, wasn’t I

You were, and this poster was saying that similar bad grammar is present in other areas, hence the cause is unlikely to be any vestige of Gaelic.

And even if it were, that doesn’t change the fact that it is bad English grammar!

Interestingly, “we was” and “you was” is not a feature of Central Scotland bad grammar but it is very common in SE England, where I live now, and it always throws me when otherwise-articulate colleagues at work use it.

Yes, where I come from, I was born and grew up in Scotland, left as an adult. @UhOhRatPoo is right, poor grammar isn’t specific to one part of the UK.

With the caveat that specific patterns of poor grammar are regional.