'you was such a good boy today!'

[KvetaBarry]

DS goes to a really lovely nursery - wonderful staff, beautiful environment, can't really complain too much.

But every time I go to pick him up, and say 'how was he today?' the staff say the above. Or 'We was on a walk, and he were really happy'.

It is getting on my nerves in quite a big way.

Please tell me he won't pick up on it? Or how we can stop him from saying it? He's 19 months and still speaking almost entirely in single words/short phrases, so no actual sentence construction.

He will pick it up.
Then he will learn to speak properly.
Then he will read the BFG and will regress for comic effect (and to annoy his mother).

I feel your pain.

My DH says 'nuthink', drives me insane and my kids wouldn't dare say it as I correct him every time!! you could try correcting the nursery staff!!!

It'll be followed by 'he's took he's own shoes off' and ' he done a real good drawing'. Not to mention ' he did that lovely!'

Hmm... Lovely nursery, caring staff, happy ( semi-articulate) child?

You'll just have to force encourage him to be bi-lingual!

If you are happy otherwise, I would leave it.

Would annoy me too though.

This is normal dialect speech in some areas. He may or may not pick it up. I thought my DD would aquire her nanny's rural Lancashire accent - then at school most of her teachers and all her class had similar...but no, she has my unfortunate Essex twang (though I eschew those grammatical errors at least)

Typically small children speak 'logical' grammar to begin with, hence the pervasive use of 'goed' instead of 'went' - they do this without ever having heard it from an adult. So I'm not sure they are particularly sensitive to the grammar used (or misused) by adults.

All you can do is to make sure you talk to him a lot, correctly.

argh!
this one drives me mad - every time DH does it (they're convinced down here that "you was" is correct!!), I tell him the correct way and then tell him I'm going to ban him from speaking to our baby. "you can kiss it and grin at it, but you will not be allowed to talk to it"

He will pick it up, but you can change it later. If you are otherwise happy then I would leave him there.

My DS went to nursery and came home saying "Can we go up the park?" etc.

my DS1, aged five, has started dropping h sounds, and going a bit rural on his vowels (one, two, three, fourrr, foive etc). I do hope it won't last.

i turned down a chldminder who said innit where was mn then