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hmmm...living in arkansas, there is quite the stereo-type about how we should 'sound'...the arkansan is seen as having quite the hick accent...

anyhow, i have been very careful to raise my kids without this. i do not speak with an accent, and i enunciate my words very carefully...as i was raised to do. my family is originally from chicago, and it was very important to my mother to have children that possessed proper grammar and also SOUNDED educated.

much to my surprise when my three-year-old started sounding like sandy off of spongebob.

"i want they-at" for "i want that"
"yay-us" for "yes"
"ray-ud" for "red"

each time, i correct her pronunciation...and she repeats it in her new horrid twang. with a giggle, i might add.

there IS a question here...promise. should i mention it to the school? should i keep my mouth shut? should i hope she just soaks in the lack of accent that my other children have?

it GRATES on my nerves...i can't STAND it. or should that be...i cay-unt stay-und e-ut.

Sounds like the old"i've found something that gets me Mom's attention" trick.I would continue to correct her and after awhile she'll give it up.

I'm from Alabama....And we all know all the red neck jokes.....I do have a slight accent but very pronounced....Neither do my children............usually! My daughter does it to just irritate me! pur-ty for pretty======OMG blood pressure rises........

warsh for wash===========my eyes just crossed and I'm gritting my teeth.....

hunnerd for hundred=========AGHHHH!!!!!!!

Sumthin for somthing========I'm ready to pull out my hair

aint got no============OMG I'm going to jump out the window!!!!!!!!





She only does it when she is really trying to yank my chain..........

Good luck!~~~~~Trish

You know where I stand on that one. Paws

Typo I have a slight accent buy NOT very pronounced!!!!!!

she's three and almost three months. but she has a 45% cognitive delay...so she's not even at the level of a two-year-old as of yet. i'm REALLY hoping she's just pulling my chain...but i'm afraid she's actually learning these patterns from her therapists.

and i'm really thinking i need to speak with her teachers about it. of course, i would hate for that to have negative repercussions on raegan.

On my way and with a million bucks I should be able to get two girls don’t you think? I am such a guy.

I've lived in California and New Jersey, in the country, city, big and little towns, I've lived in the valley and in the mountians, I have more mixes of accents than I evencare to think about, sure, some of them drive my mom crazy, but she would rather have me talking with my crazy mixed up accents and tease me about them sometimes than not have me be able to talk at all. I say yall and instead of no I say noa and I add r's where there shouldn't be any at the ends of words, but just live with it and remind yourself every time you get irked that at least she can say something at all...on the other hand, doing it just to irritate you, well, ignore her, sure you can correct her sometimes, but if you always keep at it and get irked by it it'll just spur her on to do it more.

my corrections are subtle. mostly...if she says, "i cay-unt" i say "what do you mean you CAN'T?"

but i get the speaking thing...cause she didn't say her first words til she was 23 months old, and they were beginning to teach her sign language.