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

does he have a brummie accent? no, not Brummie but definitely not southern either.

i think virtually all people under 30 pronounce it skedule, i personally find shedule more difficult to say and of course it's not spelt like that!

I come from Leicestershire, so have a fairly neutral accent (I've moved around a lot) but with northern vowel sounds (grass, bath, castle etc).

DH is from Essex / Suffolk, again has a fairly neutral accent but southern vowel sounds (grahss, bahth, cahstle).

Ds isn't talking yet but I am fascinated to see which one of us he takes after! I'm guessing DH as the local accent is closer to his than mine, but we shall see.

Spudlet I’m interested that your southern words have an h in them. I’ve just practised my southern accent and said them out loud 😀 and I say them with an r in them I think.

My two are northern, I am southern and DH is Arab! So we all sound different.

Both my girls pronounce things differently to me. I grew up 50 miles from where we live and they speak in the typical way that people do locally. My eldest just laughs it off. My youngest corrects me

In the future we're going to need some artificial intelligence if the level of current intelligence is indicative of the sort of things I see daily in newspapers or on social media.

ThroughThickAndThin01 You know, I pressed post and did then think that. Actually I'd say I'm starting to get more of a slight 'ah' sound in some words, whereas DH is probably closer to an 'ar'! It's reading aloud to DS that does for, it makes me oddly self-conscious about my accent (especially with Julia Donaldson books, which have a fair few southern accent biased rhymes). I've lived in southern-accented areas for well over a decade now, so I guess it's not surprising that my accent has migrated a bit too.

I find it really interesting, I love language and accents.

Grew up abroad, international schools: my mother claimed she could tell who I had been playing with each day as my voice would have picked up something of their inflections.

Both my parents are recognised as Irish, though they haven't lived there since the 1950s. I don't hear it, they just sound like my parents to me and my own voice doesn't seem to have picked up any of their softness

I can do many accents quite convincingly but theirs just eludes me. Vowels often come out wrong when I write (thank goodness for autocorrect).

Interesting topic, @jamesman00

I'm not a parent myself, but I'm from London and my mum is from Manchester. It has always annoyed her that we pronounce the words 'salsa' and 'Salisbury' differently... I say 'Salsa' and 'Sals-bury' while mum says 'Solsa' and sols-bury'.

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