Does your kid speak with an accent?

[05heel]

Now that mine speaks clearly, I have noticed a pretty pronounced southern twang/drawl.  It's pretty funny, but I'm surprised hers is so heavy.  I have a little bit of my Pittsburgh accent left, but my H is definitely the one with the drawl.

She also likes to yell out that her glasses are "all fogged up" when they get smudged, which of course comes out sounding exactly like something much more colorful.  So I'm left pushing this cursing, country bumpkin around Target and trying to shut her up while I find something to clean her glasses.  I definitely get disapproving looks.

But anyway, I really do want to know if your kid has an accent, and if so, is it similar to yours?

[CurlyQ284]

Neither of my SDs have one except when they say pop (pahhhp). They get it from their mom who has a thick Midwestern accent. DS is still little so we'll see.

[McGavin]

DD1 sometimes has a southern accent and when calls me "Mama". When she was 3 she got this fishing game and was always saying "Can we go fishin', Mama?" It was so funny.

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lilafowler

Andy's teacher at school has a very thick Boston accent. He definitely sounds like her a lot of the time, and its complicated by the fact that the "r" sound is one of the few he hasn't totally mastered. I think he isn't very motivated to do it right because he has learned to drop it totally.

And he knows its funny.

At the dinner table he will point to the butter and say ITS BUTTAH and then crack up.

Alligatah, tigah, watah, staiahs, tractah, front-end loadah, cement mixah

[thebuddhagouda]

He definitely drawls some words and turns a few one syllable words into 3. Neither H nor I have pronounced Southern Accents, so I suspect it comes from preschool/friends

[irrelephant]

H is from New Zealand, so DS says to-mah-to and a few other things with a Britishy "a" sound. We live in New Jersey and a few times I've heard him say tawking or wawking and I cross my fingers that he doesn't develop a full-blown Jersey accent.

[pbutter]

DD has a pretty funny speech impediment. She can't do "r's, Th.'s", and some others. At times I swear she sounds like Christopher Walkin. I realize that makes no sense, but she does.

[stellas]

Not that I've noticed. Dh and I both speak pretty strait English, though. I moved around enough that the accents canceled out, and he grew up in west Texas but was raised by Nebraskans.

I know my twang comes out when I'm mad at Payne. Ha. His name just asks for it. So...G yells at Payne with a southern accent. :/

[cville]

No, but that's mainly because she still lisps sometimes. Right now, that's the most noticeable aspect of her speech.

My husband has a flat midwestern non-accent, too, which is part of it. I have a vaguely southern accent when I'm drinking, but otherwise am pretty flat/newscaster too. I also suffer from accent adoption syndrome, so L and O may also have this malady. In which case they'll have the same accent as the person nearest to them who has a strong accent.

[05heel]

Oct 23, 2014 13:20:58 GMT -5 stellas said:

Not that I've noticed. Dh and I both speak pretty strait English, though. I moved around enough that the accents canceled out, and he grew up in west Texas but was raised by Nebraskans.

I know my twang comes out when I'm mad at Payne. Ha. His name just asks for it. So...G yells at Payne with a southern accent. :/

Ha!  This is me for my husband's name. So now if he doesn't answer her fast enough she yells his first name just like I do.   But with like 10x the drawl. 

[lulu13]

I don't think so. They say "like" a lot but I don't think there is a clear Californian accent.

[fryjack2]

Only when they are speaking Arabic. Then they sound like Americans speaking Arabic. Which they are. Ha!

[textbookcase]

Not really, I don't think. They do pronounce certain things with a Spanish/Mexican accent, or use certain Spanish words for things instead of English (chonies, chanclas, etc.) and they have picked up a very slight Boston accent on certain words (like mirror - meer-AH) from my Bostonian stepdad.

[Deleted]

T definitely has a drawl.

[laceylaplante]

Yes, a British one. Both of of them. DS1 stopped when he was about 4-5. DS2 still does with a lot of things he says.

[lilafowler]

Ellie has a WICKED Boston accent. It was "Maahk's" birthday yesterday and his mom brought in goodie bags for the kids.

[nahoku]

I'm sure they have Minnesota accents, yah, you betcha.

But we do like to talk to each other with very bad English accents sometimes. Not H, he thinks it's weird. Pretty sure DS picked it up from watching Harry Potter. I think this is not what you meant though, lol.

[So_Fetch]

When I was little I would pick up accents, so I'd say "like" and "hella" but with a southern drawl.

[papie]

I don't think they have an accent in English but they both have a slight English accent in French, and strangely a French accent in Greek, lol

[cinnamoncox]

Yes, although nowhere near as Bostonian as I sound. Their preschool teacher must not be from here because the girls will sometimes say a word and pronounce the R and I start to say that word doesn't have an R, then I realize yes, yes it does. I just haven't heard it in 35 years regularly.

[papie]

Oct 23, 2014 13:32:09 GMT -5 nahoku said:

I'm sure they have Minnesota accents, yah, you betcha.

But we do like to talk to each other with very bad English accents sometimes. Not H, he thinks it's weird. Pretty sure DS picked it up from watching Harry Potter. I think this is not what you meant though, lol.

Anna does that all the time, it cracks me up. Her fake French accent sounds German, lol

[05heel]

Oct 23, 2014 13:32:09 GMT -5 nahoku said:

I'm sure they have Minnesota accents, yah, you betcha.

But we do like to talk to each other with very bad English accents sometimes. Not H, he thinks it's weird. Pretty sure DS picked it up from watching Harry Potter. I think this is not what you meant though, lol.

Lol.  Sure it is! 

Thanks to Brave, mine says "mend the bond" with a Scottish brogue.  She actually thinks that's the name of the movie.  And the little girl.  You can't convince her otherwise.

[stellas]

Oct 23, 2014 13:34:53 GMT -5 papie said:

I don't think they have an accent in English but they both have a slight English accent in French, and strangely a French accent in Greek, lol

Don't have your kids apply to the same colleges my kids apply to, ok?

[papie]

Oct 23, 2014 13:38:56 GMT -5 stellas said:

Oct 23, 2014 13:34:53 GMT -5 papie said:

I don't think they have an accent in English but they both have a slight English accent in French, and strangely a French accent in Greek, lol

Don't have your kids apply to the same colleges my kids apply to, ok?

Lol
Every third person or so in Montreal is trilingual. I am making that stat up, but ykwim.

[Deleted]

Not really. She mostly just rolls her r's and sometimes gets English words mixed up with Russian.

[stellas]

Oct 23, 2014 13:41:09 GMT -5 papie said:

Oct 23, 2014 13:38:56 GMT -5 stellas said:

Don't have your kids apply to the same colleges my kids apply to, ok?

Lol
Every third person or so in Montreal is trilingual. I am making that stat up, but ykwim.

(Sob)

[luckyval]

He has a seriously pronounced Southern drawl, adding as many wide vowels as possible. I know H and I have accents, but Hart's is crazy thick.

[lauralala]

Sometimes I can hear a Texas twang when he makes words into more syllables than they need to be. He still has several sounds he does not say correctly, though - l and th are hard for him, and his r's are all still w's. That makes it hard to really tell what his accent is.

[chickadee77]

One of the (many, many, MANY) we left KY before having a child was because we do not want our child to sound like Forrest Gump.

She doesn't speak, yet, so I can't weigh in more than that at this point, lol.

[motzie]

My niece has picked up a little bit of a Jamaican accent from her nanny. Only on certain things, but it is adorable and funny when you catch one of those words.