Do your children pronounce any words differently to you?

[jamesman00]

Do your children pronounce any words differently to you?

Of course if one parent is foreign this will have an influence, but have you noticed a different accent amongst children, where both parents are British?

In London, many youngsters are growing up talking in an urban dialect but have you spotted any influence of American TV shows/Youtube?

I have noticed children are pronouncing "thank you" like "thenk you" and exclaiming the word 'what!' sounds like waht rather than woht

Fucking hell yes, my kids are always using roadman dialect on the phone, at school or at other functions with mates! They're northern, not Jamaican, why do they need to say Wagwan?

Not a teen, but DC acts like one!
I say salt (pronounced 'sawlt') but DC says solt. No idea why!

Blud is friend

Safe Fam is goodbye?

Ganja is weed

All that shit

Yes, ds2. He’s at uni in the north and has a acquired a lovely northern way of pronounciation. I love it. (But quite a bit different to his south east upbringing)

@ThroughThickAndThin01 ha, we're northern and the DS's are adapting to a mix of hard north and Jamaican for some reason!

Why is Jamaican the 'roadman big man' dialect used?

Yes, but only because she's Scottish, although she has an English twang from me so sounds different to her friends too.

Forehead
Tuna
John Lewis
Winds me up.

My teen kept saying "on accident" until I threatened to bury him under the patio "on accident". Usually I just laugh at the words he uses or the way he says things but on accident is like a skewer in my brain!

thanks for your response! i was thinking more in terms of pronunciation rather than lingo - unfortunately street lingo is now a reality they will hopefully grow out of!!

I still annoy the hell out of my dad by saying a few words the American way. I can’t help it if American tv was where I first heard the word!

So I say lieutenant and schedule the American way.

So I try not to rage when my teen says route WRONG, I mean, the American way. .

No one else has asked so i will WHY???

just interested? Weirdly professially written if so

Acidemic research? Ok what is your study/dissatation on might help you get tje answers you want.

Journalist?

Daily mail?

My son used to say I was too posh, it embarrassed him they way I prounounced, grass, bath, scone. I think he wanted me to fit in lol...

Or is this yet another its an americanism aint it thread about words like mom

ahh, yes. i definitely think the British pronunciation of those two words are dying out... perhaps not because of American TV but actually because of better literacy: - people are seeing words like that for the first time written down rather than spoken so it wouldn't make sense to pronounce them lefttenant or shedule!

My husband is Northern, I’m an Essex girl. We live in Essex. The kids 15, 13, 9, sound generally quite Essexish, but with the odd break out of Northern pronunciation. DH speaks with a shorter a than I do, so bath, barth, laff, laugh, after, arfter. I have to say it’s useful for spellings. I will look into many a puzzled face and said ‘what would Daddy say?' & then they get it.

genuine curiosity about the future. people have always pondered about whether we will have flying cars, self-driving cars, artificial intelligence and all of these other things in the future, but these are now becoming a reality. so there is no fun in these "predictions" about the future because it is a given. but i don't think anyone can guess what the British accent will sound like in 50 years time, will there be divergence, convergence with London, with the rest of the world? etc. etc.

The thing is op theres never been a "british" pronouncation

As the many many threads about mom and santa prove everyone from the home counties yells nasty americanism its mum and father christmas oeople from north of watford go er no its mom or mam always has been

Or are places north of watford not british

there is no need to be so rattled by this thread, i didn't mention anything about spellings (mom vs mum) or lingo (santa vs father christmas), merely accent changes such as vowel shifts people have noticed amongst the younger generation

My youngest 2 are from Leicester I'm not.
Grass
Salt
Dance
Their names
and a ton of others that no-one but me notices

I’m from the south east, public school educated with an accent to match. We live in the Midlands and DS has a very different accent to mine. I’m glad he speaks in the same way as his friends, but it’s very odd to hear my child pronouncing words so differently to me.

does he have a brummie accent? thought that one was dying out amongst the younger generation like cockney!

Loads. I'm a Northerner and they are Sarf Lahndahnahhhs.

They can switch between pronunciations though, especially if I give them the look.

My dc are growing up in a non English speaking country attending native language schools, so until fairly recently I had all the power [evil cackle] over their English vocabulary and pronunciation and they all spoke grammatically correct fairly neutral English with slightly northern vowels.

Since I've been a Rabenmutter (i.e. leaving them to their own devices more due to work and studying) they watch far too much American TV.

I hate, hate hate, with a furious but I know illogical passion, American prepositions. I hate "on accident" "on the weekend" "on Christmas", I hate, hate beyond words "I'm excited for" instead of "I'm excited about" because it means something different and dumbing down the language to reduce its use to convey meaning is not language evolving but devolving.

I correct "I'm excited for the holidays" - no you're bloody not, unless The holidays is somebody's name and you feel empathetic excitement on their behalf! I can't help it, it makes my blood boil, and fortunately it's become a joke and they are aware of exactly what the difference between about and for is, and now only do it deliberately to wind me up

However I have to make a conscious effort to let the rest slide so as not to put them off speaking English!

I'm sad to see their lovely correct British English slipping into sloppy slapdash non specific American, but it is limited mainly to prepositions of time and doesn't extend to accent.

Picking up an accents and dialect because you actually live in the location is totally fine, but people (and it's not only kids and teens) who mimic accents/ grammar/ dialect they've no human, direct link to just sound out of place and odd.

Had a discussion with dd21 over Schedule yesterday. She didn't believe me it was "Sh"
Not "sk" sound .
Thanks to Google she now knows that she was pronouncing it the US way.

My DM was from Welsh borders, my dad was from Cyprus and we lived in London, none of our accents were anything like parents.